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 1945 / Served to 1959

Eugene D. Lujan

Justice, New Mexico Supreme Court

Eugene D. Lujan was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1945. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1887–1980
Tenure: 1945–1959 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	New Mexico Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lujan authored 236 published opinions for the court (1945–1959), plus 9 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Thompson v. Anderman (83 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. 49 of these were attributed to Lujan 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
1955	Thompson v. Anderman	285 P.2d 507	83
1957	Burch v. Foy	308 P.2d 199	64
1959	Wolf v. Perry	339 P.2d 679	53
1957	Barwin v. Reidy	307 P.2d 175	53
1951	Ortega v. Koury	227 P.2d 941	53
1945	De Baca v. Kahn	161 P.2d 630	49
1953	State v. Thompson	260 P.2d 370	47
1949	Agnew v. Libby	201 P.2d 775	45
1957	State Ex Rel. Erickson v. McLean	308 P.2d 983	44
1951	State v. Alaniz	232 P.2d 982	42
1953	Hollingsworth v. Hicks†	57 N.M. 336	40
1959	Bogart v. Hester· Dissent†	347 P.2d 327	34
1958	Barakos v. Sponduris	325 P.2d 712	34
1958	Kitts v. Shop Rite Foods, Inc.†	64 N.M. 24	34
1954	Greene v. Esquibel	272 P.2d 330	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 248 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 Eugene D. Lujan on?: Eugene D. Lujan was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court.

Sources

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14 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).