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 1952 / Served to 1953

Harry P. Ilsley

Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

Harry P. Ilsley was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1952. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1884–1953
Tenure: 1952–1953 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1952	Wyoming Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Ilsley authored 26 published opinions for the court (1927–1952). Most cited: Chandler v. Dugan (29 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. 1 of these was attributed to Ilsley 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
1952	Chandler v. Dugan	251 P.2d 580	29
1952	Oregon Basin Oil and Gas Company v. Ohio Oil Company	248 P.2d 198	22
1952	Hiatt v. La Fever	242 P.2d 214	22
1952	State v. Chambers	249 P.2d 158	21
1927	Tobin v. State	255 P. 788	20
1936	Tibbals v. Graham	61 P.2d 279	18
1936	Padlock Ranch, Inc. v. Washakie Needles Irrigation District	60 P.2d 819	18
1952	Baker v. Jones	240 P.2d 1165	16
1952	Wallis v. Bosler	246 P.2d 771	15
1939	Goldberg v. Miller	93 P.2d 947	13
1952	Walgreen Co. v. STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION OF STATE OF WYOMING	246 P.2d 767	12
1952	Kammerzell v. Anderson	240 P.2d 893	12
1952	State v. Pitet	243 P.2d 177	11
1939	Crowell v. City of Cheyenne	93 P.2d 934	6
1952	Baker Oil Tools, Inc. v. Chism†	70 Wyo. 461	4

Showing the 15 most-cited of 26 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 Harry P. Ilsley on?: Harry P. Ilsley was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Sources

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1 year 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).