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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Wyoming Supreme Court / Joined 2014 / Former Justice

Kate M. Fox

Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

Kate M. Fox was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2014. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2014 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	Wyoming Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Wyoming
University of Wyoming

Judicial Record

In our data, Fox authored 129 published opinions for the court (2014–2019), plus 5 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Wyatt L. Bear Cloud (137 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. 136 of these were attributed to Fox 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
2014	Wyatt L. Bear Cloud†	2014 WY 113	137
2016	Kathy S. Crofts v. State of Wyoming, ex rel., Department of Game and Fish†	2016 WY 4	42
2018	Larkins v. State†	429 P.3d 28	38
2014	Gilbert Ortiz, Jr. v. The State of Wyoming†	2014 WY 60	38
2017	Sam v. State†	401 P.3d 834	37
2018	Essex Holding, LLC v. Basic Props., Inc.†	427 P.3d 708	36
2015	John Wallace McGinn v. State· Concurrence†	2015 WY 140	32
2014	In the Matter of the Termination of Parental Rights to AGS and AMLD, Minor Children. SAS†	2014 WY 143	31
2018	Allred v. Bebout†	409 P.3d 260	29
2017	Joyce Halling and Medcon Inc., a Utah corporation v. David A. Yovanovich and Ornella Dalla Bona†	2017 WY 28	29
2015	Gregory M. Toth v. State†	2015 WY 86	29
2017	Schmuck v. State†	406 P.3d 286	28
2016	Meyer v. Fanning†	367 P.3d 629	28
2016	Tamra Acorn, Rebecca Shwen, and Federer Holding Company, LLC, a Wyoming close limited liability company v. Lori Moncecchi and Dino Moncecchi†	2016 WY 124	27
2018	Martin v. Hart†	429 P.3d 56	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 136 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 Kate M. Fox on?: Kate M. Fox was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

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12 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).