Stewart F. Hancock Jr.

Stewart Freeman Hancock Jr. (February 2, 1923 – February 11, 2014) was a judge of the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court in the state of New York, from 1986 to 1993.

The grandson of Theodore E. Hancock, Hancock Jr. received a B.S. degree in 1945 from the United States Naval Academy and was an active duty member of the United States Navy for three-and-a-half years. He received an LL.B. from Cornell Law School in 1950.

On January 8, 1986, Governor Mario Cuomo appointed Hancock to a seat on the Court of Appeals vacated by Judge Matthew Jasen; Hancock was one of three Republican judges appointed to the court by Cuomo, a Democrat. In 1994, after completing his service on the Court, Hancock rejoined the firm founded by his grandfather.