Larry Lehman | |
Office: | Chief Justice of Wyoming |
Term Start: | 2000 |
Term End: | June 30, 2002 |
Successor: | William U. Hill |
Office2: | Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court |
Term Start2: | July 8, 1994 |
Term End2: | December 10, 2004 |
Appointer2: | Mike Sullivan |
Predecessor2: | G. Joseph Cardine |
Successor2: | E. James Burke |
Birth Date: | 1945 |
Birth Place: | Iowa City, Iowa |
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.