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 1989 / Served to 1990

Kenneth B. Wilson

Justice, New Mexico Supreme Court

Kenneth B. Wilson was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1938 · age 88
Tenure: 1989–1990

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	New Mexico Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wilson authored 14 published opinions for the court (1990), plus 2 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Folz v. State (112 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 Wilson 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
1990	Folz v. State· Concurrence†	797 P.2d 246	112
1990	State v. Jonathan M.	791 P.2d 64	87
1990	County of Los Alamos v. Tapia· Dissent†	790 P.2d 1017	66
1990	Trujillo v. City of Albuquerque· Concurrence†	798 P.2d 571	64
1990	Watson Truck & Supply Co., Inc. v. Males· Concurrence†	801 P.2d 639	61
1990	Roselli v. Rio Communities Service Station, Inc.	787 P.2d 428	50
1990	Work v. State· Dissent†	803 P.2d 234	32
1990	Kueffer v. Kueffer	791 P.2d 461	29
1990	State v. Ruffins	789 P.2d 616	29
1990	State Ex Rel. Reynolds v. Aamodt	800 P.2d 1061	25
1990	McConal Aviation, Inc. v. Commercial Aviation Insurance	799 P.2d 133	24
1990	Haaland v. Baltzley	798 P.2d 186	23
1990	Grantland v. Lea Regional Hospital, Inc.	796 P.2d 599	19
1990	Snyder Ranches, Inc. v. Oil Conservation Commission	798 P.2d 587	17
1990	Oil Transport Co. v. New Mexico State Corp. Commission	798 P.2d 169	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 19 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 Kenneth B. Wilson on?: Kenneth B. Wilson was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1989. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).