James T. Hallinan

James T. Hallinan (June 1, 1889 – July 4, 1969) was an American lawyer and judge from New York.

[1] Hallinan graduated from the New York Evening High School for Young Men in 1909.

He was admitted to the bar later that year and immediately began practicing general law as part of the firm Hallinan and Groh.

An active Catholic layman and supporter of the Dominican Order, he received the Bene Merente Medal from Pope Pius XI in 1926 and was made a Knight of St. Gregory by Pope Pius XII.

He was a trustee of the New York Law School, the Flushing Savings Bank, St. Andrew Avelino Church in Flushing, St. John's Hospital in Elmhurst, the Roman Catholic Child Care Society of Brooklyn, St. Mary's of the Springs College in Columbus, Ohio, Albert Magnus College in New Haven, Connecticut, the Dominican Academy High School in Manhattan,[4] and the Public Library of Queensborough.