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79 Mont. L. Rev. 1 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/montlr79 and id is 1 raw text is: TRIBUTE A TRIBUTE TO JUSTICE WHEAT ON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETIREMENT FROM THE MONTANA SUPREME COURT Nick Kirby Brooke* Justice Mike Wheat retired from the Montana Supreme Court at the end of 2017, after serving seven years on the bench. Wheat was appointed by Governor Brian Schweitzer in 2010 to replace the retiring Justice John Warner.' In 2014, the people of Montana re-elected Justice Wheat with 59.1% of the vote after a contentious campaign which, at the time, was the most expensive judicial race in state history.2 Justice Wheat was born in Spokane, Washington in 1947 and raised in California. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1968-1969 and was awarded a Purple Heart for his service in Vietnam. He married Debby Craig, a Helena native in 1973, and has three sons, Matt, Christer, and Craig, and a daughter, Stacey. Justice Wheat received his undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Montana in 1975, and three years later, obtained his law degree at the University of Montana School of Law. After graduation, he worked as a Deputy County Attorney in Butte, Montana. In 1981, Wheat moved to Bozeman, Montana to start the civil practice of Cok & Wheat with his law school classmate, Mike Cok. The firm started out taking any business it could find, but eventually specialized in repre- * Nick Kirby Brooke clerked for Justice Wheat from 2013-2014. 1. Charles S. Johnson, Bozeman's Mike Wheat Appointed to Montana Supreme Court, Missou- LIAN, Dec. 23, 2009, https://perma.cc/N8Y3-G8D8. 2. Mike Dennison, At Least $1.5M Spent on Montana's Wheat-VanDyke Supreme Court Race, HELENA INDEPENDENT RECORD, Nov. 26, 2014, https://perma.cc/MS9F-Y9YM.

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