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 1951 / Served to 1953

Henry George Coors

Justice, New Mexico Supreme Court

Henry George Coors was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1951. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1885–1960
Tenure: 1951–1953 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1951	New Mexico Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Judicial Record

In our data, Coors authored 27 published opinions for the court (1951–1953), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Smith v. Meadows (44 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 Coors 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
1952	Smith v. Meadows	242 P.2d 1006	44
1953	In Re Gallagher's Will	255 P.2d 317	41
1952	Natseway v. Jojola· Dissent†	251 P.2d 274	37
1952	Transcontinental Bus System, Inc. v. State Corp. Commission	241 P.2d 829	33
1953	Board of Com'rs of Dona Ana County v. Gardner	260 P.2d 682	32
1953	Sanchez v. Gomez†	57 N.M. 383	31
1953	Kiddy v. Board of County Com'rs of Eddy County	255 P.2d 678	27
1953	Trimble v. St. Joseph's Hospital	253 P.2d 805	26
1952	State v. Folk	247 P.2d 165	25
1952	Bassett v. Bassett	250 P.2d 487	24
1952	Curtis v. Curtis	248 P.2d 683	18
1953	Carper v. Board of County Com'rs of Eddy County	255 P.2d 673	16
1952	Cienfuegos v. Pacheco	248 P.2d 664	15
1951	State Ex Rel. Salazar v. Humble Oil & Refining Co.	234 P.2d 339	13
1951	Schmitz v. New Mexico State Tax Commission	232 P.2d 986	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 28 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 Henry George Coors on?: Henry George Coors was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court.

Sources

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2 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).