William Schofield

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William Schofield (February 14, 1857 – June 10, 1912) was a United States Judge.

Schofield attended the Harvard Law School and then practiced law in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1899 to 1902 and served as a judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1902 to 1911. In 1911, President William Howard Taft named Schofield as a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, but he served in that position for just one year before his death.

This article incorporates text obtained from the public domain Biographical Directory of Federal Judges compiled by the Federal Judicial Center.