From the President

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming,United States
• Citation: Vol. 29 No. 6 Pg. 4
• Publication year: 2006
• Pages: 4
• Year: 2006
• topic: Business of Law,Civil Procedure

Wyoming Bar Journal 2006.

Vol. 29, No. 6 #4 (December 2006). FROM THE PRESIDENT

WYOMING LAWYER
December 2006/Vol. 29, No. 6

FROM THE PRESIDENT . . .

By Joseph B. Bluemel

It has been two months since my last opportunity to communicate with my friends and colleagues of the Wyoming State Bar. In that brief time, much has happened with the Bar and in all our lives. There have been members who left the active practice of law to take a seat on the bench. I have had the honor to speak on behalf of the Bar at the robing ceremonies of Mike Greer who took his seat in the Circuit Court of the Third Judicial District in Evanston and Steve Cranfill who took his seat in the District Court of the Fifth Judicial District in Cody. Dan Forgey has been appointed to the bench in the Circuit Court of the Third Judicial District in Rock Springs, and John Fenn has been appointed to the bench in the Fourth Judicial District Court in Sheridan. The change in careers from lawyer to judge for these four attorneys is one form of evidence of the changes in the practice of law in Wyoming and our lives. Their clients will miss them, and their roles in the legal system has changed. I wish the best to these new judges and the parties and attorneys who will appear before them

Upon Steve Cranfill taking his seat on the District Court Bench in Cody he resigned his position as Vice President with the Bar. Rick Lavery of Evanston, Wyoming, who had served as the commissioner from the Third Judicial District, was selected by the Board to fill the vacancy left by Steve. There were three applicants for the position and I thank those applicants for their interest while welcoming Rick to the...