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 2005 / Former Justice

E. James Burke

Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

E. James Burke was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court (5 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2005 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Wyoming Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Saint Josephs College
University of Wyoming

Judicial Record

In our data, Burke authored 423 published opinions for the court (2005–2019), plus 20 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: Schreibvogel v. State (71 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. 452 of these were attributed to Burke 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
2010	Schreibvogel v. State†	2010 WY 45	71
2013	Dharminder Vir Sen v. The State of Wyoming†	2013 WY 47	58
2009	Krenning v. Heart Mountain Irrigation District	2009 WY 11	57
2008	Guy v. State†	2008 WY 56	50
2007	Talley v. State	2007 WY 37	49
2012	Jeffrey R. Arnott v. Paula a/k/a Polly A. Arnott†	2012 WY 167	48
2009	Snow v. State· Dissent†	2009 WY 117	47
2008	Jacobs Ranch Coal Co. v. Thunder Basin Coal Co., LLC†	2008 WY 101	44
2006	Doherty v. State†	2006 WY 39	44
2008	Glenn v. Union Pacific Railroad†	2008 WY 16	43
2006	Fertig v. State†	2006 WY 148	43
2008	Large v. State†	2008 WY 22	42
2007	RME Petroleum Co. v. Wyoming Department of Revenue†	2007 WY 16	41
2010	Winsted v. State†	2010 WY 139	39
2007	Prickett v. Prickett†	2007 WY 153	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 459 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 E. James Burke on?: E. James Burke was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Sources

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21 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).