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 1921 / Served to 1952

Ralph Kimball

Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

Ralph Kimball was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1921. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1878–1959
Tenure: 1921–1952 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1921	Wyoming Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Kimball authored 198 published opinions for the court (1921–1951), plus 2 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Ramirez v. City of Cheyenne (45 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. 42 of these were attributed to Kimball 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
1925	Ramirez v. City of Cheyenne	241 P. 710	45
1937	State v. Carroll· Separate	69 P.2d 542	42
1933	Utah Construction Co. v. State Highway Commission	19 P.2d 951	42
1939	Espy v. State	92 P.2d 549	40
1929	State Ex Rel. Newman v. City of Laramie	275 P. 106	40
1927	Strand v. State	252 P. 1030	40
1924	Church v. Quiner†	31 Wyo. 222	40
1948	Adoption of Strauser Ex Rel. Lucas v. Strauser	196 P.2d 862	38
1925	Wyoming Hereford Ranch v. Hammond Packing Co.	236 P. 764	37
1947	Ohio Oil Co. v. Wyoming Agency	179 P.2d 773	36
1936	State v. Vines	54 P.2d 826	33
1943	McKinney v. McKinney· Separate	135 P.2d 940	32
1943	Long v. Forbes	136 P.2d 242	31
1950	Johnston v. Vukelic	213 P.2d 925	30
1936	Town of Green River v. Bunger	58 P.2d 456	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 209 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 Ralph Kimball on?: Ralph Kimball was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Sources

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31 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).