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

Wyoming Supreme Court / Joined 1969 / Served to 1975

Leonard McEwan

Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

Leonard McEwan was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1925–2008
Tenure: 1969–1975 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Wyoming Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McEwan authored 66 published opinions for the court (1969–1975), plus 4 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Geraud v. Schrader (65 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. 79 of these were attributed to McEwan 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
1975	Geraud v. Schrader	531 P.2d 872	65
1972	Bentley v. State†	502 P.2d 203	63
1973	Reeder v. State†	515 P.2d 969	60
1972	Simms v. State· Concurrence†	492 P.2d 516	42
1975	Cranston v. Thomson· Concurrence†	530 P.2d 726	38
1974	Barnes v. Fernandez†	526 P.2d 983	33
1974	Valerio v. State†	527 P.2d 154	32
1973	Haskins v. State Ex Rel. Harrington· Concurrence†	516 P.2d 1171	32
1972	Fagan Ex Rel. Fagan v. Summers· Dissent†	498 P.2d 1227	32
1971	Fresquez v. State†	492 P.2d 197	30
1971	Guggenmos v. Tom Searl-Frank McCue, Inc.†	481 P.2d 48	28
1971	Shellhart v. Axford· Concurrence†	485 P.2d 1031	26
1975	Haley v. Dreesen	532 P.2d 399	25
1975	Bowman v. Worland School District	531 P.2d 889	25
1974	Hawkeye-Security Insurance Co. v. Apodaca†	524 P.2d 874	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 84 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 Leonard McEwan on?: Leonard McEwan was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Sources

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6 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).