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 2000 / Former Justice

Marylin S. Kite

Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

Marylin S. Kite was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2000 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Wyoming Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Wyoming
University of Wyoming

Judicial Record

In our data, Kite authored 508 published opinions for the court (2000–2015), plus 15 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Workers' Compensation Claim of Moss v. State ex rel. Wyoming Workers' Safety & Compensation Division (222 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. 519 of these were attributed to Kite 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
2010	Workers' Compensation Claim of Moss v. State ex rel. Wyoming Workers' Safety & Compensation Division†	232 P.3d 1	222
2002	Worker's Compensation Claim of Newman v. State Ex Rel. Wyoming Workers' Safety & Compensation Division†	2002 WY 91	147
2010	Ultra Resources, Inc. v. Hartman†	2010 WY 36	95
2005	O'BOYLE v. State†	2005 WY 83	94
2002	Wilks v. State†	2002 WY 100	85
2008	Bush v. State†	2008 WY 108	72
2006	MULLINNIX LLC v. HKB Royalty Trust†	2006 WY 14	72
2006	Cook v. Shoshone First Bank†	2006 WY 13	71
2008	Granzer v. State†	2008 WY 118	68
2004	Harber v. Jensen†	2004 WY 104	63
2001	Pace v. Pace†	2001 WY 43	63
2001	Skinner v. State†	2001 WY 102	62
2004	Hannon v. State†	2004 WY 8	61
2011	Kenyon v. State ex rel. Wyoming Workers' Safety & Compensation Division†	247 P.3d 845	58
2009	Lieberman v. Mossbrook†	2009 WY 65	57

Showing the 15 most-cited of 534 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 Marylin S. Kite on?: Marylin S. Kite was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Sources

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26 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).