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 1997 / Served to 1998

Daniel A. McKinnon III

Justice, New Mexico Supreme Court

Daniel A. McKinnon III was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1939–2003
Tenure: 1997–1998 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	New Mexico Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McKinnon authored 18 published opinions for the court (1996–1998), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Self v. United Parcel Service, Inc. (394 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. 4 of these were attributed to McKinnon 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
1998	Self v. United Parcel Service, Inc.	970 P.2d 582	394
1998	High Ridge Hinkle Joint Venture v. City of Albuquerque	970 P.2d 599	162
1998	Allsup's Convenience Stores, Inc. v. North River Insurance	976 P.2d 1	107
1998	State v. Munoz	972 P.2d 847	87
1998	Fernandez v. Walgreen Hastings Co.	968 P.2d 774	60
1997	Chavez v. U-Haul Co. of New Mexico, Inc.	947 P.2d 122	35
1996	State v. Johnson	930 P.2d 1148	33
1998	Kitchell v. Public Service Co.	972 P.2d 344	32
1998	Cobos v. Doña Ana County Housing Authority	970 P.2d 1143	31
1998	State v. Begay	964 P.2d 102	31
1998	Raskob v. Sanchez	970 P.2d 580	27
1998	State v. Arellano· Dissent†	965 P.2d 293	24
1998	Gutierrez v. City of Albuquerque	964 P.2d 807	21
1998	Stein v. Alpine Sports, Inc.†	126 N.M. 258	19
1998	State v. Reed	964 P.2d 113	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 21 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 Daniel A. McKinnon III on?: Daniel A. McKinnon III 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).