Charles Senff Colden (June 3, 1885 – September 14, 1960) was an American lawyer and judge from New York.
[5] In February 1932, after Queens County District Attorney James T. Hallinan was appointed to the New York Supreme Court, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Colden to be the new Queens County District Attorney.
In January 1935, when Queens County Judge Thomas S. Kadien was appointed to the New York Supreme Court, Governor Herbert H. Lehman appointed Colden Queens County Judge in his place.
[6] Colden served as County Judge until 1943, when he was elected to the New York Supreme Court.
[7] Colden was chairman of the board of trustees of the Flushing Savings Bank, a trustee of the Bowne House Historical Society and the New York State Volunteer Fireman Home, and president of the St. David Society and the Queens County Bar Association, and a director of the Greater New York Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
He was a member of Phi Delta Phi, the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Long Island Historical Society, the New York State Historical Society, the Freemasons, the Odd Fellows, the Elks,[8] the Flushing Bar Association, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Royal Arcanum.