Chamber seeking executive director

The Tucumcari/Quay County Chamber of Commerce again is looking for an executive director after the current one is resigning after less than four months on the job.

The chamber board’s president, Lee Judd, said in a telephone interview Friday that executive director Nikki Murray will remain at her position through the end of April.

He said she is resigning for personal reasons.

“She’s got other things she felt like she needed to do with her family,” Judd said. “She decided it wasn’t going to work for her. We hate to see her go.”

The chamber posted a notice Thursday on Facebook it was accepting resumes by email at [email protected] for those interested in the position.

Judd said the board wanted to hire someone as soon as possible so Murray could train him or her before she leaves.

Murray took over on Jan. 4 as the chamber’s executive director after her predecessor, Carmen Runyan, departed that month after at little less than three years at the position.

Murray, who graduated from Tucumcari High School in 2011, went to Eastern New Mexico University for a year before marrying her husband, Zachary. They farm 1,200 acres east of Tucumcari and have two children.

She once owned the now-defunct Farmhouse Boutique in Tucumcari and was a receptionist and medical assistant at Presbyterian Medical Services for four years.

Murray didn’t return a phone call requesting comment.