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 1981 / Served to 1988

Charles Stuart Brown

Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

Charles Stuart Brown was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1918–1997
Tenure: 1981–1988 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Wyoming Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Utah State University
Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Brown authored 285 published opinions for the court (1924–1991), plus 36 dissents and 30 concurrences. Most cited: Martin v. State (256 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. 320 of these were attributed to Brown 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
1986	Martin v. State†	720 P.2d 894	256
1983	McClellan v. Tottenhoff†	666 P.2d 408	131
1987	Boehm v. Cody Country Chamber of Commerce†	748 P.2d 704	127
1986	Schmunk v. State· Concurrence†	714 P.2d 724	111
1984	Jahnke v. State· Concurrence†	682 P.2d 991	105
1982	Chapman v. State· Dissent†	638 P.2d 1280	96
1981	Scheikofsky v. State†	636 P.2d 1107	93
1986	England v. Simmons†	728 P.2d 1137	92
1987	Mostert v. CBL & Associates†	741 P.2d 1090	90
1984	Jahnke v. State· Concurrence†	692 P.2d 911	90
1985	O'DONNELL v. City of Casper†	696 P.2d 1278	87
1984	Bishop v. State†	687 P.2d 242	86
1987	Brown v. State†	736 P.2d 1110	85
1983	Caterpillar Tractor Co. v. Donahue†	674 P.2d 1276	85
1982	Browder v. State· Dissent†	639 P.2d 889	85

Showing the 15 most-cited of 351 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 Charles Stuart Brown on?: Charles Stuart Brown was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Sources

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7 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).