Former members
editChief Justice of New Mexico Territory
edit| 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
edit| 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
editStephen 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
edit(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
edit- ^ "Grafton Baker", The Weekly Mississipian (April 4, 1851), p. 2.