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 1990 / Served to 2002

Gene Edward Franchini

Justice, New Mexico Supreme Court

Gene Edward Franchini was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1935–2009
Tenure: 1990–2002 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	New Mexico Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Franchini authored 151 published opinions for the court (1976–2002), plus 15 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Cunningham (761 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. 40 of these were attributed to Franchini 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
2000	State v. Cunningham· Dissent†	998 P.2d 176	761
1996	Sims v. Sims	930 P.2d 153	318
2001	State v. Benally	34 P.3d 1134	299
2002	State v. Roybal· Dissent†	54 P.3d 61	291
1992	Roth v. Thompson	825 P.2d 1241	231
1999	State v. Allen· Concurrence†	994 P.2d 728	208
1998	State v. Duffy	967 P.2d 807	205
2000	State v. Jacobs	10 P.3d 127	170
1996	State v. Breit	930 P.2d 792	153
2001	Delgado v. Phelps Dodge Chino, Inc.	34 P.3d 1148	148
2001	State v. Santillanes· Dissent†	27 P.3d 456	144
1998	Regents of the University of New Mexico v. New Mexico Federation of Teachers	962 P.2d 1236	144
1996	State v. Campos· Dissent†	921 P.2d 1266	143
1997	Rummel v. Lexington Insurance	945 P.2d 970	137
2000	State v. Nieto	12 P.3d 442	123

Showing the 15 most-cited of 173 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 Gene Edward Franchini on?: Gene Edward Franchini was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court.

Sources

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12 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).