Charles Wolcott Parker (1862–1948) was a justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1907 to 1947.
[3] Parker also presided alongside Joseph B. Perskie over the NJ State Supreme Court Case, Everson vs Board of Education of Ewing Township, which would lead to the landmark US Supreme Court decision on the separation of church and state.
Charles Parker studied at the Pingry School and Phillips Exeter Academy before earning an A.B.
He was appointed by Governor Edward C. Stokes as an associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1907, succeeding John Franklin Fort,[6] and serving thereafter until September 1947.
He died there on January 23, 1948,[3] and is interred at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Newark.