J. Foster Wilkin

James Foster Wilkin (February 26, 1853 – December 4, 1914) was a lawyer in the U.S. State of Ohio who was an Ohio Supreme Court Judge from 1912 to his death.

Biography J. Foster Wilkin was born in 1853 at Hollidays Cove, Virginia (now West Virginia). His parents moved to Newcomerstown, Ohio, where he attended the local schools. He studied at Washington & Jefferson College and the College of Wooster. At Washington & Jefferson he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi. He studied law at the University of Virginia, and had a thirty five year practice at New Philadelphia, Ohio. He married Virginia Smith of Newcomerstown, Ohio, who died in 1919. Wilkin was associated with two of his sons in private practice, David R. and Robert Nugen Wilkin, under the name Wilkin and Wilkin. His funeral was at the Presbyterian Church in New Philadelphia and burial was at the Canal Dover Cemetery.

He had eight or ten children. His son, Robert Nugen Wilkin, would later be chosen for the Supreme Court.