Larry Lehman

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Larry Lehman
Chief Justice of Wyoming
In office
2000 – June 30, 2002
Succeeded by William U. Hill
Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court
In office
July 8, 1994 – December 10, 2004
Appointed by Mike Sullivan
Succeeded by E. James Burke
Personal details
Born 1945
Iowa City, Iowa
Died December 10, 2004(2004-12-10)

Larry Lehman (1945 – December 10, 2004) 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.

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