| Michael Golden | |
| Office: | Chief Justice of Wyoming |
| Term Start: | 1994 |
| Term End: | 1996 |
| Predecessor: | Richard J. Macy |
| Successor: | William A. Taylor |
| Office2: | Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court |
| Term Start2: | June 30, 1988 |
| Term End2: | August 30, 2012 |
| Predecessor2: | Charles Stuart Brown |
| Successor2: | Michael K. Davis |
| Birth Place: | Enid, Oklahoma, U.S. |
Thomas Michael Golden[1] (born 1942) is an American jurist who was a justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.[2] [3]
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.