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 1988 / Served to 2014

Michael Golden

Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

Michael Golden was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1942 · age 84
Tenure: 1988–2014 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Wyoming Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Golden authored 713 published opinions for the court (1988–2014), plus 67 dissents and 43 concurrences. Most cited: Parker Land & Cattle Co. v. Wyoming Game & Fish Commission (256 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. 815 of these were attributed to Golden 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
1993	Parker Land & Cattle Co. v. Wyoming Game & Fish Commission†	845 P.2d 1040	256
1990	Billis v. State†	800 P.2d 401	142
1994	Wilder v. Cody Country Chamber of Commerce· Concurrence†	868 P.2d 211	138
1993	Saldana v. State· Concurrence†	846 P.2d 604	104
1994	Wyoming Steel & Fab, Inc. v. Robles	882 P.2d 873	88
1993	Vanasse v. Ramsay†	847 P.2d 993	87
2003	Damato v. State†	2003 WY 13	84
2000	Roussalis v. Wyoming Medical Center, Inc.†	4 P.3d 209	84
1999	Vasquez v. State†	990 P.2d 476	83
1990	Gale v. State†	792 P.2d 570	80
1995	Campbell County School District v. State†	907 P.2d 1238	76
1995	Guerra v. State· Concurrence†	897 P.2d 447	73
1993	Springfield v. State†	860 P.2d 435	73
2012	Claman v. Popp†	279 P.3d 1003	67
1992	Bouwkamp v. State†	833 P.2d 486	67

Showing the 15 most-cited of 824 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 Michael Golden on?: Michael Golden 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).