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 1993 / Served to 1998

William A. Taylor

Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

William A. Taylor was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1928–2010
Tenure: 1993–1998 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Wyoming Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Taylor authored 199 published opinions for the court (1993–1998), plus 9 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Wilder v. Cody Country Chamber of Commerce (138 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. 204 of these were attributed to Taylor 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
1994	Wilder v. Cody Country Chamber of Commerce†	868 P.2d 211	138
1994	Wilson v. State†	874 P.2d 215	132
1994	State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Shrader†	882 P.2d 813	118
1993	Hopper v. All Pet Animal Clinic, Inc.†	861 P.2d 531	95
1993	Doctors' Co. v. Insurance Corp. of America†	864 P.2d 1018	86
1993	Mehring v. State†	860 P.2d 1101	76
1998	Reavis v. Reavis†	955 P.2d 428	75
1995	Guerra v. State†	897 P.2d 447	73
1997	Tenorio v. State ex rel. Wyoming Workers' Compensation Division†	931 P.2d 234	59
1995	Yung v. State†	906 P.2d 1028	58
1994	Cranston v. Cranston†	879 P.2d 345	58
1993	Prudential Preferred Properties v. J and J Ventures, Inc.†	859 P.2d 1267	57
1995	Curl v. State†	898 P.2d 369	56
1995	Basolo v. Basolo†	907 P.2d 348	54
1993	Vigil v. State†	859 P.2d 659	54

Showing the 15 most-cited of 210 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 William A. Taylor on?: William A. Taylor was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Sources

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5 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).