Hugo Morris Friend (July 21, 1882 – April 29, 1966) was an American jurist who, in his youth, competed as an athlete in the long jump and hurdles.

He was selected for the United States team for the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece and won a bronze medal.

Hugo Morris Friend, who was Jewish,[1] was born on July 21, 1882, in the city of Prague, in what was then the Austrian province of Bohemia.

In 1916, he was appointed a Master in Chancery of the Superior Court of Cook County by Judge Albert C. Barnes, a position he held for four years.

[citation needed] At the conclusion of the evidence, Judge Friend said of the cases against two of the players, Buck Weaver and Happy Felsch, that they were so weak that he doubted if he could let the convictions stand.

[7] In 1928, Friend presided over the case against Chicago Mayor William Hale Thompson and three codefendants, ordering them to repay to the city over $2 million that had been paid to real estate experts.

He died on April 29, 1966, at age 83 the oldest active Cook County Circuit Court judge, while listening to the broadcast of a Chicago White Sox–Cleveland Indians game.