Michael Golden (judge)

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

Michael Golden
Chief Justice of Wyoming
In office
1994–1996
Preceded byRichard J. Macy
Succeeded byWilliam A. Taylor
Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court
In office
1988 – Aug 30, 2012
Succeeded byMichael K. Davis
Personal details
Born1942 (age 80–81)
Alma materUniversity of Wyoming

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. NNDB
  2. Official Justice biography Archived 2013-07-27 at the Wayback Machine
  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 "Recent State Court Rulings Affect LGBT Citizens in Three States | Backstory Blog | Human Rights Campaign". Archived from the original on 2011-11-06. Retrieved 2011-11-02.
  5. Joan Barron, 'Wyoming Supreme Court reverses same-sex divorce ruling', in Casper Star-Tribune, June 7, 2011


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