Former members

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Chief Justice of New Mexico Territory

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Chief Justice Term served Notes
Grafton Baker (1851 – 1853) Appointed by President Fillmore; from Mississippi[1]
James J. Deavenport (or Davenport?) (1853 – 1858) Appointed 1853, 1857; from Mississippi; resigned
Kirby Benedict (1858 – 1866) Appointed by President Buchanan in 1858; reappointed by President Lincoln in 1862; previously served as Associate Justice, 1853-1858
John P. Slough (1866 – 1867) Appointed 1866 by President Johnson; murdered while in office; from D.C.
John Sebrie Watts (1868 – 1869) Appointed 1868; removed by President Grant, 1869; previously served as Associate Justice, 1851-1854
Joseph Gilbert Palen (1869 – 1875) Appointed 1869; died in office December 21, 1875; from New York
Henry L. Waldo (1876 – 1878) Appointed 1876; resigned
Charles McCandless (1878) Appointed by President Hayes, February, 1878; resigned November, 1878, because it was impracticable to move his family from Butler, Pennsylvania
L. Bradford Prince (1879 – 1882) Appointed by President Hayes; from New York
Samuel Beach Axtell (1882 – 1885) Appointed 1882; resigned after the election of President Cleveland
William A. Vincent (1885) Appointed by Cleveland; removed by Cleveland same year
Elisha V. Long (1885 – 1890)
James O’Brien (1890 - 1894) Appointed by , 1890; from Minnesota
Thomas Smith (1894 – 1898) From Virginia
William J. Mills (1898 – 1910) Appointed 1898, 1901
William Hayes Pope (1910 – 1912) previously associate justice? Resigned to take appointment as first judge of United States District Court for the District of New Mexico
Clarence J. Roberts (1912) Subsequently elected as first Chief Justice of New Mexico Supreme Court

New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court justices

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Associate Justice Term served Notes
John Sebrie Watts (1851 – 1854) Appointed 1851 by President Fillmore; resigned; subsequently appointed Chief Justice 1868-1869; from Indiana; see Watts v. County of Santa Fe, 1 N.M. 286; 1859 N.M. LEXIS 4; why was the territory seizing Watts’ property? “John S. Watts”
Horace Mower (1851 – 1853) Appointed 1851 by President Fillmore; from Michigan
Kirby Benedict (1853 – 1858) Appointed 1853, 1857, 1858 by Buchanan; subsequently appointed as Chief Justice, 1858-1866
Perry E. Brocchus (1854 – 1858; 1861; 1863 - 1864; 1867 - 1868) Appointed 1854 by President Pierce; resigned 1858; appointed 1861 by President Buchanan; removed by President Lincoln, 1861?; 1863, 1864; removed 1864 by Lincoln; appointed 1867 by President Johnson; removed 1868 by President Grant; originally from either Maryland or Alabama
Thomas B. Stevenson (1858) Appointed 1858, resigned same year; from Kentucky
William F. Boone (1858 – at least 1859) Appointed 1858 by President Buchanan; from Pennsylvania
Zachariah L. Nabers (1858 – ?) Appointed 1858 by President Buchanan; from Alabama
William G. Blackwood (1859 – 1861) Appointed 1859; from Missouri
William A. Davidson (1860 – 1861) Appointed 1860; resigned
Joseph Gilette Knapp (1861 – 1864) Appointed 1861; removed by President Lincoln; from Wisconsin
Sydney H. Hubbell (1861 – 1867) Appointed as recess appointment by President Lincoln, 1861, subsequently reappointed 1861, 1864, 1865; resigned 1867
Nathaniel Usher (1864 – 1865) Appointed 1864; from Indiana; became Ass’t U.S. D.A. for N.D. Ind. in 1865
Joab Houghton (1865 – 1869) Appointed 1865 and 1866 by President Johnson; removed by President Grant, 1869; previously appointed as Chief Justice, 1846-1850, by military governor of unorganized territory
Henry Sherman (1865 – ?) Appointed 1865; from Indiana
David P. Vinton (1865 – ?) Appointed 1865; from Indiana
Abraham Berger (or Abram Bergen?) (1869 – 1870) Appointed 1869 by President Grant; resigned
Hezekiah S. Johnson (1870 – 1876) Appointed 1869 by President Grant
Benjamin J. Waters (1870 – 1871) Appointed 1870; resigned; from Missouri
Daniel B. Johnson, Jr. (1871 – 1872) Appointed 1871
Warren Bristol (1872 – 1884) Appointed 1872 by President Grant
John I. Reddick (1876 – 1877)
Sam B. McLin (1877 – 1878)
Samuel C. Parks (1878 – 1882)
Joseph Bell ( 1882 – 1885)
Stephen Fowler Wilson (1884 – 1885) Appointed by President Arthur; from Pennsylvania
William F. Henderson (1885 – 1888)
William H. Brinker (1885 – 1889)
Ruben A. Reeves (1887 – 1889) Appointed by Cleveland
William H. Whiteman (1889 – 1890)
William D. Lee (1890 – 1893)
John R. McFie (1890 –?; 1898 –1905 at least) only justice appointed to five terms; longest tenure of any justice on territory court
Alfred A. Freeman (1890 – 1894)
Edward P. Seeds (1890 – 1894) Iowa state senator
Albert Bacon Fall (1893) Appointed by Cleveland; removed when he abruptly left the bench one day to join in pursuit of a fugitive; later one of first U.S. Senators from New Mexico
Gideon D. Bantz (1893 – 1895)
Needham C. Collier (1893 – 1898)
Napoleon B. Laughlin (1894 – 1898)
Humphrey B. Hamilton (1895 – 1898)
Frank W. Parker (1898 – 1911) appointed 1898 by McKinley; 1901 by T. Roosevelt; 1905 by Roosevelt; 1910 by Taft)
Charles E. Leland (1898 – 1900)
Jonathan W. Crumpacker (1898 – 1902)
Daniel H. McMillan (1900 – 1903) Benjamin S. Baker (1902 – 1904)
William H. Pope (1903 – ?) subsequently chief justice
Ira A. Abbott (1904 – at least 1906)
Edward A. Mann (1904 – ) killed in auto accident at Gallup

supreme court or territorial court:? Edward R. Wright Merritt C. Mechem Clarence J. Roberts all served with Abbott, McFie, Pope

Fiske

New Mexico Supreme Court

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Stephen B. Davis, Jr. 1921

|- |Sam Gilbert Bratton |(1923 – 1924) |Resigned to run for United States Senate

Howard L. Bickley 1926-36 Frank W. Parker 1926–31 [1] John C. Watson 1926–31 Charles C. Catron 1929–31 John F. Simms 1929–31 Andrew H. Hudspeth 1931 Daniel K. Sadler 1931 – at least 1937 Samuel Rufus Brice 1934–1942 (?) A. L. Zinn 1935?


|Irwin S. Moise | (1959 – 1970) | Appointed 1959; served as Chief Justice

John B. McManus, Jr. 1972 Samuel Z. Montoya 1972 LeFel E. Oman 1972

|Donnan Stephenson |(1971 – 1976) |Resigned to go into private practice

|Dan Sosa, Jr. |served for 16 years |

|- |H. Vern Payne |(1977 – 1984) |served as Chief Justice, 1982-1984 |- |William R. Federici | (1977 – 1986) | Appointed, 1977; served as Chief Justice, 1984-1985 |- |William F. Riordan |(1981 – 1986) |served as Chief Justice, 1986 |- |Harry E. Stowers, Jr. |(1982 – 1989) | |- |Mary C. Walters |(1984 – 1989) | |- |Richard E. Ransom |(1986 – 1997) |Elected 1986; Chief Justice 1991-1994 |- Seth D. Montgomery |(1989 – ? no later than 1995) | Appointed, 1989; served as Chief Justice, 1994 |- |Dan A. McKinnon, III | ( - 1998) | |- |Gene E. Franchini |(1990 - 2003) |Retired; served as Chief Justice, 1997-1998 |- |Stanley F. Frost |(1991 - 1996) |retired; served as Chief Justice, 1996 |- |Joseph F. Baca |(1994 – 2003) |served as Chief Justice, 1995-1997 (except for one month, yield to Frost |}

Chief Justices

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(all associate justices chosen by brethren) Frank W. Parker 1926-29 Howard Lee Bickley 1929-31 J. C. Compton 1972 Andrew H. Hudspeth 1931 A. L. Zinn 1935?

1982-1984 H. Vern Payne 1984-1985 William R. Frederici 1986 William F. Riordan 1987-1990 ? 1991-1994 Richard E. Ransome 1994 Seth D. Montgomery 1995 – 1997 Joseph F. Baca 1996 Stanley F. Frost 1997-1998 Gene E. Franchini 1999-2001 Pamela B. Minzner first female CJ 2001-2002 Patricio M. Serna 2002-2004 Petra Jimenez Maes first Hispanic female CJ 2004-2006 Richard C. Bossen

References

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  1. ^ "Grafton Baker", The Weekly Mississipian (April 4, 1851), p. 2.