Thomas Michael Golden (born 1942) is an American jurist who was a justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.NNDBOfficial Justice biography
Biography Golden was born on September 30, 1942, in Enid, Oklahoma. In high school, he played baseball with Dick Cheney in Casper, Wyoming.Dick Cheney, In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir, New York, NY: Threshold Editions, 2011, p. 24 He received a B.A. in 1964 and a J.D. in 1967, both from the University of Wyoming. In 1992, he received an LLM from the University of Virginia Law School.
He served in the Judge Advocate General's Corps for four years. In 1988, he was appointed as a Justice in the Wyoming Supreme Court. From 1994 to 1996, he served as its chief justice. 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.Roddy Flynn, 'Recent State Court Rulings Affect LGBT Citizens in Three States', Human Rights Campaign, June 21, 2011 Joan Barron, 'Wyoming Supreme Court reverses same-sex divorce ruling', in Casper Star-Tribune, June 7, 2011 Golden retired from the Wyoming Supreme Court in August 2012.
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