Shannon Broderick Bulman at a glance
- Current role
- Former District Court Judge
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- New Mexico · State
- Judicial service
- Former
Shannon Broderick Bulman
Former District Court Judge · First Judicial District Court
Shannon Broderick Bulman — First Judicial District Court
Biography
Professional career
- Worked as a domestic relations hearing officer for the First Judicial District from 2017 until her district-court appointment in January 2020
- 2015–2017: Santa Fe County Probate Court judge (elected 2014)
Education
- University of New Mexico School of Law — J.D. (1989)
- University of Connecticut — B.A. (1985)
Additional information
- Retired from the First Judicial District Court on January 1, 2026, after six years on the district bench.
- Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham appointed her to succeed Raymond Z. Ortiz in January 2020; she was elected in November 2020.
- Appointed by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham on January 10, 2020 to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Raymond Z. Ortiz
- Admitted to the New Mexico bar in 1989.
- Practiced law privately, including while serving as Santa Fe County probate judge.
- Judge Bulman’s tenure is remembered for her focus on family welfare, impartiality, and handling emotionally charged cases with care
- Under New Mexico law, the governor will appoint her successor, with nominees screened by an independent judicial nominating commission
- Judge Bulman presided over domestic relations cases — including child custody, divorce, kinship guardianship, and domestic violence proceedings — in the First Judicial District, which covers Santa Fe, Los Alamos, and Rio Arriba counties.
Sources
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