Richard Wilde Walker Jr. (March 11, 1857 – April 10, 1936) was an associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 32/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 55/year
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1914–1936
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Conference of Senior Circuit Judges (now Judicial Conference of the United States)Member · 1922–1929
- Court of Appeals of AlabamaPresiding judge · 1911–1914
- AlabamaState representative · 1903
- Supreme Court of AlabamaJustice · 1891–1892
- Private practice, St. Louis, Missouri
- Private practice, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Private practice, New York City
- Private practice, Huntsville, Alabama
Appointments
1914–1936 · Appointed by Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
- Washington and Lee University
- Read law1878
- College of New Jersey (now Princeton University)A.B. · 1877