Thirty individuals have held the office of lieutenant governor since statehood, two of them serving non-consecutively.

[2] The lieutenant governor is the first person in the gubernatorial line of succession by virtue of the New Mexico Constitution.

[7][b] The office of lieutenant governor was created on January 6, 1912, the year New Mexico was admitted into the Union as the 48th state.

Over the intervening years, New Mexico has had 27 individuals in the lieutenant governor's office, two of whom have served non-consecutive terms.

The last lieutenant governor to succeed to the governorship was Tom Bolack, following the resignation of Edwin L. Mechem on November 30, 1962.