New Mexico governor picks 2 for state Supreme Court

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has named two district judges to fill a pair of vacancies on the New Mexico Supreme Court.

The governor on Friday announced Shannon Bacon and David K. Thomson as her choices for the high court. They will replace recently retired Justices Charles Daniels and Petra Maes.

Bacon has served in the state's busiest judicial district since 2010. She's the presiding judge over the Albuquerque-based district's civil division and is an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law.

Thomson has served as a judge in Santa Fe since 2014. He previously worked for more than a decade in the state attorney general's office.