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 1994 / Served to 2007

Pamela B. Minzner

Justice, New Mexico Supreme Court

Pamela B. Minzner was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1943–2007
Tenure: 1994–2007 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	New Mexico Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Minzner authored 125 published opinions for the court (1995–2007), plus 21 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Rojo (1,163 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. 53 of these were attributed to Minzner 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
1998	State v. Rojo	971 P.2d 829	1,163
2000	State v. Jason L.	2 P.3d 856	316
2002	State v. Roybal	54 P.3d 61	291
1999	State v. Torres	976 P.2d 20	266
1999	State v. Varela	993 P.2d 1280	250
2006	State v. DeGraff	131 P.3d 61	232
2002	State v. Trujillo· Concurrence†	42 P.3d 814	229
1999	State v. Allen	994 P.2d 728	208
2003	State v. Rivera	82 P.3d 939	207
1996	Key v. Chrysler Motors Corp.	918 P.2d 350	202
1997	State v. Baca	950 P.2d 776	197
1999	New Mexico Right to Choose/NARAL v. Johnson	986 P.2d 450	181
1998	State v. Sarracino	964 P.2d 72	168
2001	State v. JAVIER M.· Concurrence†	33 P.3d 1	165
2003	State v. Vandenberg· Dissent†	81 P.3d 19	162

Showing the 15 most-cited of 165 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 Pamela B. Minzner on?: Pamela B. Minzner was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court.

Sources

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12 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).