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

Lynne Boomgaarden

Chief Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

Lynne Boomgaarden is a Chief 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, Boomgaarden authored 27 published opinions for the court (2018–2019). Most cited: Dixon v. State (43 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. 27 of these were attributed to Boomgaarden 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	Dixon v. State†	438 P.3d 216	43
2019	Ianelli v. Camino†	444 P.3d 61	21
2019	Mathewson v. State†	438 P.3d 189	16
2019	Mellott v. State†	435 P.3d 376	16
2019	Hopkins v. State†	445 P.3d 582	13
2018	Broberg v. State†	428 P.3d 167	13
2019	Schell v. Scallon†	433 P.3d 879	9
2019	In re Estate of Frank†	432 P.3d 885	9
2019	Parkhurst v. State†	443 P.3d 834	8
2018	Martinez v. State†	432 P.3d 493	8
2018	Brumme v. State†	428 P.3d 436	8
2019	Redland v. Redland (In re Robert and Irene Redland Family Trust, Dated August 10, 1989)†	435 P.3d 349	7
2018	Ray v. State†	432 P.3d 872	7
2018	Mitchell v. State†	426 P.3d 830	6
2018	Haskell v. State†	422 P.3d 955	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 27 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 Lynne Boomgaarden on?: Lynne Boomgaarden is a Chief Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

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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).