Thomas Glynn Walker

Thomas Glynn Walker (December 7, 1899 – November 4, 1993) was an American attorney, politician, and judge in New Jersey.

Walker received an LL.B. from Fordham University School of Law in 1924. He was in private practice in Newark, New Jersey from 1924 to 1937. He was a professor at Mercer Beasley School of Law in Newark from 1930 to 1935. He was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly from 1933 to 1938, and was speaker from 1937 to 1938. He was a judge on the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals in Trenton from 1937 to 1939. He was a judge on the Court of Common Pleas in Jersey City in 1939. He was vice president and general counsel of New Jersey Bell Telephone Company in Newark from 1942 to 1965. He was in private practice in Newark from 1965 to 1970.

Walker was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. Walker received a recess appointment from President Franklin D. Roosevelt on December 20, 1939, to a seat vacated by William Clark. Formally nominated on January 16, 1940. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 5, 1940, and received his commission on March 13, 1940. Walker served in that capacity until December 31, 1941, due to resignation.

He died in New Vernon, New Jersey.

Sources

• Thomas Glynn Walker at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.