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 1959 / Served to 1969

David W. Carmody

Justice, New Mexico Supreme Court

David W. Carmody was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1959. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1902 · age 124
Tenure: 1959–1969 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1959	New Mexico Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Carmody authored 276 published opinions for the court (1948–1969), plus 20 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Padilla (106 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. 79 of these were attributed to Carmody 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
1959	State v. Padilla	347 P.2d 312	106
1967	Clovis National Bank v. Thomas· Dissent†	425 P.2d 726	87
1966	State v. Paris	414 P.2d 512	64
1960	Royal Indemnity Co. v. Southern California Petroleum Corp.	353 P.2d 358	62
1962	Coca v. Arceo	376 P.2d 970	54
1969	Mora v. Martinez	451 P.2d 992	52
1962	Continental Oil Co. v. Oil Conservation Commission	373 P.2d 809	52
1962	Mahoney v. JC Penney Company· Dissent†	377 P.2d 663	47
1966	State Ex Rel. State Park & Recreation Commission v. New Mexico State Authority· Dissent†	411 P.2d 984	46
1962	O'MEARA v. Commercial Insurance Company	376 P.2d 486	46
1962	Brown v. Arapahoe Drilling Company	370 P.2d 816	45
1968	State v. Garcia	443 P.2d 860	44
1964	Buchanan v. Downing	394 P.2d 269	43
1968	State Ex Rel. Castillo Corp. v. New Mexico State Tax Commission	443 P.2d 850	42
1966	DesGeorges v. Grainger· Dissent†	412 P.2d 6	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 301 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 David W. Carmody on?: David W. Carmody was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court.

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10 years 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).