Larry Lehman

Larry Lehman
Chief Justice of Wyoming
In office
2000 – June 30, 2002
Preceded byWilliam A. Taylor
Succeeded byWilliam U. Hill
Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court
In office
July 8, 1994 – December 10, 2004
Appointed byMike Sullivan
Preceded byG. Joseph Cardine
Succeeded byE. James Burke
Personal details
Born1945
Iowa City, Iowa
Died (aged 59)

Larry Lee Lehman[1] (July 8, 1945 – December 10, 2004)[2] was a chief justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Born in Iowa City, Iowa, Lehman received a JD from the University of Wyoming College of Law in 1976. He practiced with the firm of Vehar, Lehman, Beppler & Jacobson, P.C., in Evanston, Wyoming.

He served as a judge in Uinta County, Wyoming, from 1985 to 1988, and as a state district judge for Albany and Carbon counties. On July 8, 1994, Governor Mike Sullivan appointed Lehman was to a seat on the Wyoming Supreme Court. Lehman became chief justice in 2000, and was the first chief justice to serve a four-year term. He died from brain cancer, a month before he was scheduled to step down.

  1. ^ "Lehman appointed as district judge; county judge spot vacant". Casper Star-Tribune. February 3, 1988.
  2. ^ "Larry L. Lehman - 1945-2004". Wyoming Tribune Eagle. December 12, 2004.