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 2012 / Former Justice

Michael K. Davis

Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

Michael K. Davis was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2012 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Wyoming Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Davis authored 170 published opinions for the court (2012–2019), plus 5 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Anita Harmon, as an Individual and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Euella Potter (47 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. 179 of these were attributed to Davis 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
2014	Anita Harmon, as an Individual and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Euella Potter†	2014 WY 90	47
2015	KC v. State†	351 P.3d 236	45
2014	Estate of Dahlke ex rel. Jubie v. Dahlke†	319 P.3d 116	43
2018	Davis v. State†	415 P.3d 666	41
2014	Kenneth Dale Nicodemus†	2014 WY 135	36
2013	Mary Lankford, in her official capacity as Sublette County Clerk v. Paul Rock, Dari Quirk, & Ernest Kawa†	2013 WY 61	34
2014	Powder River Basin Resource Council v. Wyoming Oil & Gas Conservation Commission†	320 P.3d 222	33
2019	Farrow v. State†	437 P.3d 809	31
2019	Wyo. Jet Ctr., LLC v. Jackson Hole Airport Bd.†	432 P.3d 910	30
2013	Evelyn Difelici, f/n/a Evelyn Barnes v. City of Lander†	2013 WY 141	27
2019	Rodriguez v. State†	435 P.3d 399	26
2017	Alex Jordan Vaughn v. State†	2017 WY 29	26
2013	Amy C. Roberts v. Steven Locke†	2013 WY 73	25
2015	City of Casper v. Holloway†	354 P.3d 65	24
2013	Nathan R. Baker and Bryner Farms, LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability Company v. David Speaks and Elizabeth Speaks†	2013 WY 24	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 179 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 K. Davis on?: Michael K. Davis was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Sources

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13 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).