Charles Wolcott Parker

Charles Wolcott Parker (1862–1948) was a justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey from 1907 to 1947. He presided at the 1926 Hall–Mills murder trial and wrote a 1935 unanimous opinion upholding the Bruno Richard Hauptmann murder conviction.

Charles W. Parker was born in Newark on October 22, 1862, son of Cortlandt Parker (1818–1907). He was the younger brother of U.S. Congressman Richard W. Parker and Army Major General James Parker, and uncle of Cortlandt Parker. Charles Parker studied at the Pingry School and Phillips Exeter Academy before earning an A.B. degree from Princeton University in 1882. In 1885, he completed an A.M. degree at Princeton and received a LL.B. degree from Columbia Law School. and serving thereafter until September 1947. He was conferred an honorary LL.D. degree by Princeton in 1919.

Parker resided in Morristown. He died there on January 23, 1948, and is interred at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Newark.