Historical Committee

The Historical Committee preserves and promotes New Mexico's rich legal history through written scholarship, oral presentations, and other educational initiatives.                                                                                          

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Historical Articles

• Bernard Rodey and the Jointure Movement in the U.S. Congress
• Col. Albert Jennings Fountain: Prosecutor of the Cattle Rustler
• Crime and Punishment in Colonial New Mexico
• Circuit Riding Judges Ride Home
• Don Miguel Antonio Otero and the New Mexico Notch
• Fact or Fiction - Did President Benjamin Harrison Really Try to Fire New Mexico Territorial Judge A. A. Freeman?
• Hang By The Neck Until Dead - Four Times
• Hannett's Joke: Route 66
• Hermanos y Concunados: The Rise and Fall of the Brothers Leahy
• I Remember John E. Menig, Founder of the Firm
• I Remember Judge Daniel A. MacPherson, Jr. and the Twenty-Five Dollar Black Eye
• Is One of Our Attorneys General Missing?
• Judge Edward. A. Mann: The D. A. Who Wasn’t
• Judge L.S. Trimble and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
• Judge Pope and the US Supreme Court
• Lawyers, Guns, Insurance Money
• New Mexico - Past or Prologue?
• New Mexico's Man For All Season - Judge Luis Armijo of Las Vegas
• ONE MAN, ONE WAR: Elfego Baca and His Mission
• Para Nada - War Over the Baca and Estancia Land Grants
• Paula Angel: The Search for "The Only Woman Ever Hanged in New Mexico"
• The Calvary on a Stalking Horse!
• The Girl or God? Don Miguel Chavez Will Contest
• The Governor Hannett Case: Lawyers, Judges, Politics and the Press - 1927 Style
• The New Mexico Constitution Meets the "Facts on the Ground"
• The Role of Women Lawyers in American Legal History
• The Story of Territory v. Duran
• Who Killed J. Francisco Chaves
• Women in the Law - Pioneers

2022 Annual Report