ELECT
Dulaney Barrett
Otero County Commissioner District 3

A practical preacher to lead
Good Change for Otero

I am Robert Dulaney Barrett, Sr.  I go by Dulaney.  My wife is Susan,  and she is the Coordinator of
Special Programs for the Cloudcroft Public School system. Together we have four children; 7 grandchildren; and one great grand child.

I  have 54 years experience as a United Methodist pastor -- now retired.  In that position I had large and
small churches and served  a period as a district superintendent, all of which gives me years of vital
experience in administration, personnel management,  people relations and dealing with all sorts of
emergencies.

I am a member of the Sacramento/Weed Volunteer Fire Department, and I serve on the Advisory
Committee for Gifted Programs at Cloudcroft Schools (on which I served before Susan became the
coordinator).  I have worked in various communities as a mental health volunteer; alcoholism and other
drug rehab worker.   I have served (in Oklahoma) on a blue ribbon committee to evaluate state Vocational
 Education institutions; and was one of six persons to serve, at the Oklahoma legislature's appointment, on a Special Committee to investigate the entire prison system of the state of Oklahoma.  We were to report
findings and recommend legislation.  There were two state senators; two state representatives and two
non-legislative persons on this committee.

I also served professionally as a member of the staff of the Pecan Valley Mental Health Mental Retardation Center (MHMR) in Central Texas.  Our mandate was to provide first class MH/MR services for a five county area.  It was a superior program.  I was the Director of Consultation and Education.

I have been active in community ministerial groups wherever I have lived, and I am now active in the South Sacramento Mountain Ministerial Alliance.

I am a graduate of Wink High School, Wink, Texas, and I earned my Bachelor of Arts degree from McMurry University in Abilene, Texas.  I have two masters degrees and an earned doctorate from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

I grew up on Central Texas grandparent's dry land  farms and in the oil patch of West Texas.  I have cleared right of way and built fence for Winkler County, worked in a grocery store, on an oilfield pulling unit, and on a really big oil drilling rig as a back up tong operator.  I worked my way through college and graduate school pumping gas at a night service station, parking cars  for a car lot operator and cleaning the athletic dorm for McMurry University in a work-study program.  I have served as a campus minister (at the University of New Mexico), the first Chaplain to the University for Oklahoma City University, and the first Executive Director for Camping ministry for the New Mexico Conference of the United Methodist church (at Sacramento, NM). In several of these appointments, I was responsible for getting buildings authorized, funded, and constructed.

Dulaney Barrett
120 Agua Chiquita Road
Sacramento NM 88347
575/687-4016
dulaneybarrett@gmail.com