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 1970 / Served to 1970

Daniel A. Sisk

Justice, New Mexico Supreme Court

Daniel A. Sisk was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1927 · age 99
Tenure: 1970–1970

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	New Mexico Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Stanford University
Stanford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Sisk authored 20 published opinions for the court (1970). Most cited: Montoya v. Barreras (47 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. 5 of these were attributed to Sisk 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
1970	Montoya v. Barreras	473 P.2d 363	47
1970	Rutledge v. Johnson	465 P.2d 274	39
1970	Slade v. Slade	468 P.2d 627	38
1970	Montoya v. City of Albuquerque	476 P.2d 60	27
1970	Lahr v. Lahr	478 P.2d 551	20
1970	Northcutt v. McPherson	473 P.2d 357	18
1970	Jacobson v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins.†	81 N.M. 600	17
1970	Southern Union Gas Company v. City of Artesia	472 P.2d 368	17
1970	State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. Gray	467 P.2d 725	15
1970	Fellows v. Shultz	469 P.2d 141	14
1970	Coe v. City of Albuquerque	467 P.2d 27	12
1970	Pan American Petroleum Corp. v. El Paso Natural Gas Co.	477 P.2d 827	9
1970	Caranta v. Pioneer Home Improvements, Inc.	467 P.2d 719	6
1970	City of Hobbs v. State Ex Rel. Reynolds	476 P.2d 500	5
1970	State ex rel. State Highway Commission v. Martinez†	81 N.M. 442	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 20 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. Sisk on?: Daniel A. Sisk was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1970. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).