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 1998 / Former Justice

William U. Hill

Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

William U. Hill was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1948 · age 78
Tenure: 1998 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Wyoming Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Wyoming
University of Wyoming

Judicial Record

In our data, Hill authored 631 published opinions for the court (1999–2018), plus 32 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Workers' Compensation Claim of Moss v. State ex rel. Wyoming Workers' Safety & Compensation Division (222 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. 568 of these were attributed to Hill 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
2010	Workers' Compensation Claim of Moss v. State ex rel. Wyoming Workers' Safety & Compensation Division· Dissent†	232 P.3d 1	222
2003	Damato v. State· Dissent†	2003 WY 13	84
2001	Scherer Construction, LLC v. Hedquist Construction, Inc.†	2001 WY 23	68
2015	Adebowale Oluseyi Adekale A/K/A Ted Adekale†	2015 WY 30	66
2001	Eklund v. PRI Environmental, Inc.†	2001 WY 55	58
2005	Cathcart v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company	2005 WY 154	53
2004	Berry v. State	2004 WY 81	52
2002	Howard v. State†	2002 WY 40	51
2005	Piroschak v. Whelan	2005 WY 26	50
2004	Beaulieu v. Florquist	2004 WY 31	50
1999	Bunting v. Jamieson†	984 P.2d 467	49
2015	Shey Elan Bruce†	2015 WY 46	47
2014	State v. Mares†	335 P.3d 487	47
2007	Teniente v. State†	2007 WY 165	47
2004	Statement of Termination of Davis v. City of Cheyenne	2004 WY 43	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 674 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 U. Hill on?: William U. Hill was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Sources

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27 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).