Megan P. Duffy
The Honorable

Megan P. Duffy

Court of Appeals Judge
Statewide

Year: 2024

Recommendation: Retain

Election Results:

Evaluation: Judge Megan Duffy’s survey results were somewhat mixed. Attorneys rated her positively for treating all courtroom participants with respect, maintaining professional demeanor in the courtroom, and providing court participants with a meaningful opportunity to be heard. Additionally, court staff rated her positively for rendering opinions without regard to outside pressure, maintaining professional demeanor, and ensuring her personal staff is professional, productive, and knowledgeable of court policies and procedures. However, court staff gave her low ratings when it comes to timeliness in making rulings and rendering decisions and effectively handling ongoing workload. They also rated her somewhat lower in treating court employees with respect and working professionally and cooperatively with court personnel.

Experience & Education: Judge Megan Duffy was elected to the New Mexico Court of Appeals in 2018. Judge Duffy worked at the Roepke Law Firm and served as a law clerk for Justice Richard Bosson. She was a founding member and director of Albuquerque Involved. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of New Mexico in 2004 and her law degree from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 2008.

PERCENTAGE THAT AGREE OR DISAGREE THAT THE JUDGE EXHIBITS POSITIVE QUALITIES IN EACH CATEGORY *

Attorneys (n=47, 14% Response Rate)
Category Agree Partly Agree/ Partly Disagree Disagree
Exhibits Integrity 83% 7% 10%
Fair and Impartial 79% 12% 10%
Application/ Knowledge of Law 72% 14% 14%
Professional Demeanor 88% 8% 4%
Timeliness of Rulings 62% 18% 20%
Court Staff (n=14, 14% Response Rate)
Category Agree Partly Agree/ Partly Disagree Disagree
Fair and Impartial 57% 43% 0%
Application/ Knowledge of Law 73% 22% 5%
Respects Court Employees 50% 21% 29%
Professional Demeanor 57% 29% 14%
Timeliness of Rulings 13% 38% 50%
Appellate Judges (n=10, 71% Response Rate)
Category Agree Partly Agree/ Partly Disagree Disagree
Exhibits Integrity 78% 22% 0%
Fair and Impartial 80% 10% 10%
Application/ Knowledge of Law 87% 13% 0%
Respects Court Employees 60% 30% 10%
Professional Demeanor 88% 0% 13%
Timeliness of Rulings 60% 10% 30%
District Judges (n=19, 24% Response Rate)
Category Agree Partly Agree/ Partly Disagree Disagree
Exhibits Integrity 100% 0% 0%
Application/ Knowledge of Law 92% 6% 2%
Timeliness of Rulings 84% 11% 5%

 

*On the tables above, the “Agree” columns are comprised of the strongly agree and agree responses. Similarly, the “Disagree” columns are comprised of the strongly disagree and disagree responses. The combined percentage of “Agree”, “Disagree”, and “Partly Agree/Partly Disagree” for each category may not equal 100% due to rounding error. Some of the percentages that are reported in the above categories are an average of more than one question that appeared on the survey.