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 1994 / Served to 2004

Larry L. Lehman

Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

Larry L. Lehman was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1945–2004
Tenure: 1994–2004 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Wyoming Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lehman authored 350 published opinions for the court (1990–2004), plus 33 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Lancaster v. State (87 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. 374 of these were attributed to Lehman 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
2002	Lancaster v. State· Dissent†	2002 WY 45	87
1999	McChesney v. State†	988 P.2d 1071	75
1995	Guerra v. State· Dissent†	897 P.2d 447	73
2002	Burton v. State†	2002 WY 71	69
2001	Chapman v. State†	2001 WY 25	65
1998	Brown v. State†	953 P.2d 1170	57
2001	Ogden v. State†	2001 WY 109	55
2001	Wyoming Community College Commission v. Casper Community College District†	2001 WY 86	55
2000	Cross v. Berg Lumber Company†	7 P.3d 922	53
1995	Gurney v. Gurney· Concurrence†	899 P.2d 52	52
1999	Ryan v. State	988 P.2d 46	51
2004	Giles v. State†	2004 WY 101	50
1995	Herdt v. State†	891 P.2d 793	50
2000	Painter v. Abels	998 P.2d 931	49
1995	Baier v. State†	891 P.2d 754	49

Showing the 15 most-cited of 395 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 Larry L. Lehman on?: Larry L. Lehman was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Sources

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10 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).