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 1991 / Served to 1996

Stanley F. Frost

Justice, New Mexico Supreme Court

Stanley F. Frost was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1942–1999
Tenure: 1991–1996 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	New Mexico Supreme Court	–	–

Education

New Mexico Highlands University
George Washington University

Judicial Record

In our data, Frost authored 90 published opinions for the court (1991–1996), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Alberico (297 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. 18 of these were attributed to Frost 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
1993	State v. Alberico†	116 N.M. 156	297
1993	State v. Alberico	861 P.2d 192	272
1993	State v. Lucero	863 P.2d 1071	174
1993	Duncan v. Kerby	851 P.2d 466	161
1995	State v. Woodward	908 P.2d 231	160
1994	State v. Ogden	880 P.2d 845	149
1996	State v. Campos	921 P.2d 1266	143
1993	Santillanes v. State	849 P.2d 358	142
1994	Trujillo v. Serrano	871 P.2d 369	139
1994	State v. Parish	878 P.2d 988	137
1995	Gonzales v. Surgidev Corp.	899 P.2d 576	127
1993	Continental Potash, Inc. v. Freeport-McMoran, Inc.	858 P.2d 66	125
1995	Morningstar Water Users Ass'n v. New Mexico Public Utility Commission	904 P.2d 28	118
1994	State v. Werner· Dissent†	871 P.2d 971	111
1996	Strata Production Co. v. Mercury Exploration Co.	916 P.2d 822	76

Showing the 15 most-cited of 93 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 Stanley F. Frost on?: Stanley F. Frost was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court.

Sources

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4 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).