William A. Taylor, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetWilliam A. Taylor
American judge
Date of Birth: 02-Nov-1928
Date of Death: 18-Jun-2010
Profession: military personnel
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About William A. Taylor
- William "Al" Taylor (November 2, 1928 – June 18, 2010) was an American jurist who served as a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court from January 22, 1993, until his retirement in 1998. On November 2, 1928, Taylor was born in Lusk, Wyoming to Don and Ethel Taylor.
- He graduated from Lusk High School in 1946.
- After receiving his teaching degree from the University of Wyoming in 1951, he taught geography, social studies, and arithmetic in Lusk, Wyoming.
- He joined the United States Army during the Korean War.
- After his military service and teaching two more years in Lusk, he attended law school at the University of Wyoming, obtaining his law degree in 1959.
- During law school, he married Jane Y.
- Lyons.
- After law school, he practiced law in Lusk, where he also served as city attorney and county attorney for Niobrara County.
- In 1976, he became the first Director of the Wyoming State Bar.
- He served as Director until 1980, when he was appointed by Governor Edgar J.
- Herschler to a new Wyoming state district court judgeship in the Eighth Judicial District, serving Converse, Platte, Goshen, and Niobrara Counties.
- He served as a state district judge until 1993, when he was appointed to the Wyoming Supreme Court by Governor Mike Sullivan.
- He served as Chief Justice from 1997-1998.
- He retired from the Wyoming Supreme Court in 1998.
- Taylor died June 18, 2010, in Green Valley, Arizona, and is buried in Lusk.Taylor had three daughters.
- His middle daughter, Kari Jo Gray, was appointed to the Wyoming Supreme Court by Governor Matt Mead in September 2018; she was sworn in on October 9, 2018.
- Her robing ceremony took place on November 2, 2018, which would have been her father's 90th birthday.
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