Richard Joseph Hopkins (April 4, 1873 – August 28, 1943) was a justice of the Kansas Supreme Court and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.
Born in Jefferson City, Missouri, Hopkins received a Bachelor of Laws from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in 1901.
He was in private practice in Chicago, Illinois, from 1901 to 1906, and in Garden City, Kansas, from 1906 to 1913.
[1] On October 17, 1929, Hopkins was nominated by President Herbert Hoover to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Kansas vacated by Judge George Thomas McDermott.
Hopkins was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 19, 1929, and received his commission the same day.