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 2002 / Active

Richard C. Bosson

Justice, New Mexico Supreme Court

Richard C. Bosson is a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, serving since 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2002 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	New Mexico Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Wesleyan University
Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Bosson authored 137 published opinions for the court (2003–2024), plus 8 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Barber (344 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. 62 of these were attributed to Bosson 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
2004	State v. Barber	92 P.3d 633	344
2006	State v. Bernal	2006 NMSC 50	321
2013	Elane Photography, LLC v. Willock· Concurrence†	4 N.M. 605	292
2003	Herrera Ex Rel. Estate of Ruiz v. Quality Pontiac· Concurrence†	73 P.3d 181	202
2004	State v. Smith	98 P.3d 1022	194
2005	State v. Garcia	116 P.3d 72	182
2009	State v. Chavez	211 P.3d 891	162
2003	State v. Vandenberg	81 P.3d 19	162
2009	State v. Belanger	210 P.3d 783	161
2005	State v. Graham· Dissent†	109 P.3d 285	149
2014	State v. Consaul†	6 N.M. 532	138
2012	State v. Spearman†	2012 NMSC 23	133
2009	State v. Sosa	223 P.3d 348	133
2011	State v. Gutierrez· Concurrence†	258 P.3d 1024	125
2007	State v. Neal· Dissent†	164 P.3d 57	122

Showing the 15 most-cited of 160 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 is Richard C. Bosson on?: Richard C. Bosson is a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court.

Sources

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24 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).