Michael Golden (judge)

Michael Golden
Chief Justice of Wyoming
In office
1994–1996
Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court
In office
1988  August 30, 2012
Succeeded by Michael K. Davis
Personal details
Born 1942 (age 7273)
Alma mater University of Wyoming

Michael Golden (born 1942) was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.[1][2]

Biography

Michael Golden was born in 1942.[1] In high school, he played baseball with Dick Cheney in Casper, Wyoming.[3] He received a B.A. in 1964 and a J.D. in 1967, both from the University of Wyoming.[1][2] In 1992, he received an LLM from the University of Virginia Law School.[1][2]

He served in the Judge Advocate General's Corps for four years.[1][2] In 1988, he was appointed as a Justice in the Wyoming Supreme Court.[1][2] From 1994 to 1996, he served as its Chief Justice.[1][2] In June 2011, he authored a decision to grant divorces to same-sex married couples, despite the illegality of same-sex marriage in Wyoming at the time.[4][5] Golden retired from the Wyoming Supreme Court in August 2012.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NNDB
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Official Justice biography
  3. Dick Cheney, In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir, New York, NY: Threshold Editions, 2011, p. 24
  4. Roddy Flynn, 'Recent State Court Rulings Affect LGBT Citizens in Three States', Human Rights Campaign, June 21, 2011
  5. Joan Barron, 'Wyoming Supreme Court reverses same-sex divorce ruling', in Casper Star-Tribune, June 7, 2011


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