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 1954 / Served to 1958

Henry A. Kiker

Justice, New Mexico Supreme Court

Henry A. Kiker was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1954. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1882–1958
Tenure: 1954–1958 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1954	New Mexico Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Kiker authored 47 published opinions for the court (1955–1958), plus 7 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Sellman v. Haddock (58 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. 19 of these were attributed to Kiker 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
1957	Sellman v. Haddock	310 P.2d 1045	58
1955	State v. Upton	290 P.2d 440	54
1956	Hoge v. Farmers Market & Supply Co. of Las Cruces, Inc.	296 P.2d 476	38
1958	State v. Nelson	321 P.2d 202	34
1958	Jontz v. Alderete	326 P.2d 95	33
1956	Curtis v. Schwartzman Packing Company	299 P.2d 776	31
1955	Gerrard v. Harvey & Newman Drilling Company	282 P.2d 1105	31
1955	Hanks v. Walker	288 P.2d 699	26
1955	Miller v. Smith	282 P.2d 715	26
1957	White v. Valley Land Company	322 P.2d 707	23
1956	Barrans v. Hogan	304 P.2d 880	23
1955	Scanlon v. Scanlon	287 P.2d 238	23
1958	State v. Begay	320 P.2d 1017	22
1958	Jensen v. Allen	320 P.2d 1016	22
1957	Rival v. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co.	306 P.2d 648	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 56 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 A. Kiker on?: Henry A. Kiker was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court.

Sources

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4 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).