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 1955 / Served to 1975

Glenn Parker

Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

Glenn Parker was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1955. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1898–1989
Tenure: 1955–1975 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1955	Wyoming Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Parker authored 303 published opinions for the court (1952–1975), plus 32 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Spears (69 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. 326 of these were attributed to Parker 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
1956	State v. Spears	300 P.2d 551	69
1974	Markle v. Williamson· Dissent†	518 P.2d 621	61
1974	Boyd v. State†	528 P.2d 287	55
1971	Monahan v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DIST. NO. 9, FREMONT COUNTY· Dissent†	486 P.2d 235	55
1965	State Ex Rel. Frederick v. District Court of Fifth Judicial District Ex Rel. County of Big Horn†	399 P.2d 583	54
1969	Scarlett v. Town Council, Town of Jackson, Teton County†	463 P.2d 26	50
1967	Mahaney v. Hunter Enterprises, Inc.†	426 P.2d 442	50
1960	Murdock v. State†	351 P.2d 674	50
1963	Marathon Oil Company v. Welch· Dissent†	379 P.2d 832	48
1972	Deeter v. State†	500 P.2d 68	46
1974	Collins v. Memorial Hospital of Sheridan County· Dissent†	521 P.2d 1339	45
1959	Twing v. Schott†	338 P.2d 839	44
1968	Fallon v. Wyoming State Board of Medical Examiners· Dissent†	441 P.2d 322	43
1974	Montez v. State†	527 P.2d 1330	42
1972	Simms v. State†	492 P.2d 516	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 356 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 Glenn Parker on?: Glenn Parker was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Sources

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19 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).