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 2018 / Active

Kari Jo Gray

Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

Kari Jo Gray is a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, serving since 2018. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2018 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2018	Wyoming Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gray authored 11 published opinions for the court (2018–2019). Most cited: Jackson v. State (16 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. 11 of these were attributed to Gray 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
2019	Jackson v. State†	445 P.3d 983	16
2019	Finley Res., Inc. v. Ep Energy E&P Co.†	443 P.3d 838	16
2019	Btu W. Res., Inc. v. Berenergy Corp.†	442 P.3d 50	13
2019	MSC v. MCG†	442 P.3d 662	12
2019	Gunsch v. State†	444 P.3d 1278	9
2019	Smith v. Kelly†	442 P.3d 297	8
2019	Cassidy v. Teton Cnty. Coroner (In re Birkholz)†	434 P.3d 1102	8
2019	Casiano v. State ex rel. Wyo. Dep't of Transp.†	434 P.3d 116	7
2019	Sorensen v. State†	444 P.3d 1283	5
2018	Rhoads v. State†	431 P.3d 1130	3
2018	Cooper v. State†	431 P.3d 1126	0

Showing the 11 most-cited of 11 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 is Kari Jo Gray on?: Kari Jo Gray is a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Sources

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8 years on the Wyoming Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).