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 1985 / Served to 2000

Richard J. Macy

Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

Richard J. Macy was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1930 · age 96
Tenure: 1985–2000 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Wyoming Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Macy authored 510 published opinions for the court (1986–2000), plus 52 dissents and 41 concurrences. Most cited: Frias v. State (163 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. 599 of these were attributed to Macy 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
1986	Frias v. State†	722 P.2d 135	163
1990	Billis v. State· Dissent†	800 P.2d 401	142
1994	Wilder v. Cody Country Chamber of Commerce· Concurrence†	868 P.2d 211	138
1994	State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Shrader· Concurrence†	882 P.2d 813	118
1993	Saldana v. State· Concurrence†	846 P.2d 604	104
1987	Brown v. State· Dissent†	736 P.2d 1110	85
1991	Engberg v. Meyer· Concurrence†	820 P.2d 70	84
1998	Gayler v. State†	957 P.2d 855	79
1994	State Department of Revenue & Taxation v. Pacificorp†	872 P.2d 1163	79
1992	Herrig v. Herrig†	844 P.2d 487	78
1988	St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. v. Albany County School District No. 1†	763 P.2d 1255	76
1996	Bloomquist v. State†	914 P.2d 812	73
1987	Gist v. State· Dissent†	737 P.2d 336	73
1986	Duffy v. State· Dissent†	730 P.2d 754	73
1990	Bennett v. State· Concurrence†	794 P.2d 879	66

Showing the 15 most-cited of 603 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 Richard J. Macy on?: Richard J. Macy was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Sources

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15 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).