How do judges of the New Mexico Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

New Mexico Court of Appeals / Joined 1968 / Served to 1986

William Hendley

Judge, New Mexico Court of Appeals

William Hendley was a Judge of the New Mexico Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1968. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1968–1986 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1968	New Mexico Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hendley authored 402 published opinions for the court (1969–1987), plus 26 dissents and 31 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Boyer (401 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. 159 of these were attributed to Hendley 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
1985	State v. Boyer	712 P.2d 1	401
1986	State v. Smith	726 P.2d 883	184
1985	State v. Talley	702 P.2d 353	85
1980	State v. Crespin	612 P.2d 716	70
1986	Hernandez v. Mead Foods, Inc.	716 P.2d 645	61
1985	State v. Gillette· Dissent†	699 P.2d 626	60
1974	Hines v. St. Joseph's Hospital	527 P.2d 1075	57
1974	Chisholm v. Scott· Dissent†	526 P.2d 1300	57
1974	Terrel v. Duke City Lumber Company, Inc.	524 P.2d 1021	56
1977	State v. Ortiz	563 P.2d 113	55
1969	State v. Austin	461 P.2d 230	53
1976	Transport Indemnity Company v. Garcia	552 P.2d 473	52
1974	State v. Marquez· Dissent†	529 P.2d 283	52
1970	Adams v. Loffland Brothers Drilling Company	475 P.2d 466	50
1975	State v. Romero	532 P.2d 208	49

Showing the 15 most-cited of 460 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 Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was William Hendley on?: William Hendley was a Judge of the New Mexico Court of Appeals.

Sources

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18 years on the New Mexico Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).