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 1925 / Served to 1947

Howard Lee Bickley

Justice, New Mexico Supreme Court

Howard Lee Bickley was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1925. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1871–1947
Tenure: 1925–1947 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1925	New Mexico Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bickley authored 330 published opinions for the court (1923–1946), plus 45 dissents and 34 concurrences. Most cited: Barker v. City of Santa Fe (84 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. 7 of these were attributed to Bickley 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
1943	Barker v. City of Santa Fe	136 P.2d 480	84
1943	In Re Santillanes· Dissent	138 P.2d 503	73
1943	Webb v. New Mexico Pub. Co.· Dissent	141 P.2d 333	64
1941	Stevenson v. Lee Moor Contracting Co.· Dissent	115 P.2d 342	64
1935	State Ex Rel. Capitol Addition Bldg. Commission v. Connelly· Dissent	46 P.2d 1097	63
1941	Mosley v. Magnolia Petroleum Co.· Concurrence	114 P.2d 740	61
1940	State v. Jones· Concurrence	107 P.2d 324	60
1944	Laughlin v. Laughlin· Concurrence	155 P.2d 1010	56
1945	State Ex Rel. State Game Commission v. Red River Valley Co.· Dissent	182 P.2d 421	55
1938	Moruzzi v. Federal Life & Casualty Co.· Concurrence	75 P.2d 320	54
1944	Cave v. Cooley	152 P.2d 886	53
1925	Davy v. McNeill· Concurrence	240 P. 482	51
1939	Crocker v. Johnston· Concurrence	95 P.2d 214	50
1933	State Ex Rel. Hannah v. Armijo	28 P.2d 511	50
1945	Lipe v. Bradbury· Concurrence	154 P.2d 1000	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 410 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 Howard Lee Bickley on?: Howard Lee Bickley was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court.

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22 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).