He was a captain in the United States Army field artillery during World War I from 1917 to 1919.
He returned to private practice in Waterbury, Connecticut with the firm of Meyer, Hincks & Traurig from 1919 to 1931.
[2] Hincks received a recess appointment from President Dwight D. Eisenhower on October 3, 1953, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated by Judge Thomas Walter Swan.
[2] Among Hincks' most notable cases on the district bench was the reorganization of the New Haven Railroad (1935–1947).
"[1] He served as secretary of the committee charged with constructing the Yale Bowl and was active in Mory's.