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Michael Golden (judge)

Michael Golden (judge)

American judge

Thomas Michael Golden[1] (born September 30, 1942) is an American jurist who was a justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.[2][3]

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Biography

Golden was born on September 30, 1942, in Enid, Oklahoma.[4] In high school, he played baseball with Dick Cheney in Casper, Wyoming.[5] He received a B.A. in 1964 and a J.D. in 1967, both from the University of Wyoming.[2][3] In 1992, he received an LLM from the University of Virginia Law School.[2][3]

He served in the Judge Advocate General's Corps for four years.[2][3] In 1988, he was appointed as a Justice in the Wyoming Supreme Court.[2][3] From 1994 to 1996, he served as its chief justice.[2][3] 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.[6][7] Golden retired from the Wyoming Supreme Court in August 2012.

References

  1. [1]
    "Thomas Michael Golden, Outstanding Alumnus 2015". University of Wyoming. 2015.
  2. [2]
    NNDB
  3. [3]
    Official Justice biography Archived 2013-07-27 at the Wayback Machine
  4. [4]
    Wyoming State Archives (1991). Wyoming Blue Book (PDF). Vol. IV. p. 141.
  5. [5]
    Dick Cheney, In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir, New York, NY: Threshold Editions, 2011, p. 24
  6. [6]
    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.
  7. [7]
    Joan Barron, 'Wyoming Supreme Court reverses same-sex divorce ruling', in Casper Star-Tribune, June 7, 2011


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