Richard Wilde Walker Jr. (March 11, 1857 – April 10, 1936) was an associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Born on March 11, 1857, in Florence, Alabama, Walker attended Washington and Lee University and then received an Artium Baccalaureus degree in 1877 from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University).
He entered private practice in St. Louis, Missouri; Albuquerque, New Mexico Territory; New York City; and Huntsville, Alabama.
[1] Walker was nominated by President Woodrow Wilson on October 2, 1914, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated by Judge David Davie Shelby.
He was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 5, 1914, and received his commission the same day.