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 1976 / Served to 1982

Mack Easley

Justice, New Mexico Supreme Court

Mack Easley was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1976. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1916–2006
Tenure: 1976–1982 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1976	New Mexico Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Easley authored 152 published opinions for the court (1976–1983), plus 7 dissents. Most cited: Pharmaseal Laboratories, Inc. v. Goffe (164 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. 35 of these were attributed to Easley 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
1977	Pharmaseal Laboratories, Inc. v. Goffe	568 P.2d 589	164
1979	State v. Manus	597 P.2d 280	143
1977	State Ex Rel. Newsome v. Alarid	568 P.2d 1236	115
1977	State v. Bell	560 P.2d 925	115
1978	State v. Lankford	582 P.2d 378	111
1981	Buzbee v. Donnelly	634 P.2d 1244	99
1979	Fryar v. Johnsen	601 P.2d 718	92
1982	Three Rivers Land Co., Inc. v. Maddoux	652 P.2d 240	89
1979	United Nuclear Corp. v. General Atomic Co.	597 P.2d 290	85
1978	Spingola v. Spingola	580 P.2d 958	81
1982	State v. Sisneros	647 P.2d 403	79
1978	Gerety v. Demers	589 P.2d 180	79
1978	Phelps Dodge Corp. v. Guerra	582 P.2d 819	64
1979	State v. Linam	600 P.2d 253	63
1977	State v. Elliott	557 P.2d 1105	61

Showing the 15 most-cited of 159 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 Mack Easley on?: Mack Easley was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court.

Sources

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6 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).