How do judges of the Wyoming Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Wyoming Supreme Court / Joined 2001 / Served to 2014

Barton R. Voigt

Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

Barton R. Voigt was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1949 · age 77
Tenure: 2001–2014 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Wyoming Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Wyoming
University of Wyoming

Judicial Record

In our data, Voigt authored 443 published opinions for the court (2001–2014), plus 24 dissents and 41 concurrences. Most cited: Worker's Compensation Claim of Dale v. S & S Builders, LLC (248 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 435 of these were attributed to Voigt by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2008	Worker's Compensation Claim of Dale v. S & S Builders, LLC	2008 WY 84	248
2002	Gleason v. State†	2002 WY 161	117
2010	Ultra Resources, Inc. v. Hartman· Dissent†	2010 WY 36	95
2002	Lancaster v. State†	2002 WY 45	87
2003	Dysthe v. State†	2003 WY 20	85
2010	Schreibvogel v. State· Concurrence†	2010 WY 45	71
2002	Rodriguez v. Casey†	2002 WY 111	70
2002	Burton v. State· Dissent†	2002 WY 71	69
2008	Granzer v. State· Dissent†	2008 WY 118	68
2003	Birt v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc.†	2003 WY 102	65
2007	DeLoge v. State	2007 WY 71	64
2004	Cathcart v. Meyer†	2004 WY 49	59
2007	Dettloff v. State	2007 WY 29	57
2003	Asch v. State†	2003 WY 18	56
2011	Brown v. City of Casper· Dissent†	2011 WY 35	54

Showing the 15 most-cited of 508 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Wyoming Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Barton R. Voigt on?: Barton R. Voigt was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Sources

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12 years on the Wyoming Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).