John W. Judd

John Waltus Judd (September 6, 1839 – January 27, 1919) was a justice of the Supreme Court of the Utah Territory from 1888 to 1889.

[2] In 1861 he enlisted in company C, 49th Tennessee Infantry, and was taken prisoner with his regiment at the fall of Fort Donelson in February 1862.

[1] In 1888, President Grover Cleveland appointed Judd to the Utah territorial supreme court.

[1] After this appointment expired, Judd formed a law partnership with Jabes G. Sutherland before returning to his native Tennessee.

[1][3] In later years, Congressman Joseph W. Byrns Jr. "spoke of his father's visitors on long winter evenings at home; Judge John W. Judd, later a Utah Territorial Supreme Court judge, especially inspired young Joe Byrns".