How do judges of the New Mexico Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

New Mexico Supreme Court / Joined 1953 / Served to 1954

Augustus T. Seymour

Justice, New Mexico Supreme Court

Augustus T. Seymour was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1953. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1907 · age 119
Tenure: 1953–1954 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1953	New Mexico Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Seymour authored 45 published opinions for the court (1953–1954), plus 3 concurrences. Most cited: State v. White (58 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 16 of these were attributed to Seymour by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1954	State v. White	270 P.2d 727	58
1954	State Corporation Com'n v. Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co.	270 P.2d 685	43
1954	Industrial Supply Company v. Goen	276 P.2d 509	36
1953	Jencks v. Goforth†	57 N.M. 627	34
1954	Faubion v. Tucker	270 P.2d 713	33
1953	Keirsey v. Hirsch	265 P.2d 346	32
1954	McCormick v. Board of Education of Hobbs Municipal School District No. 16	274 P.2d 299	26
1954	State v. Sanchez	265 P.2d 684	24
1953	Wiggs v. City of Albuquerque	263 P.2d 963	24
1954	Breeden v. Wilson	273 P.2d 376	23
1954	Carpenter v. Yates	273 P.2d 373	21
1953	New Jersey Zinc Co. v. Local 890 of International Union of Mine†	57 N.M. 617	20
1953	Sanchez v. Securities Acceptance Corp.	260 P.2d 703	18
1954	Crownover v. Crownover	274 P.2d 127	16
1954	Primus v. Clark· Concurrence†	273 P.2d 963	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 48 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the New Mexico Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Augustus T. Seymour on?: Augustus T. Seymour was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court.

Sources

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1 year on the New Mexico Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).