William A. Hocker

Born in Buckingham County, Virginia,[1][2][3] to William Hocker and Susan Mildred Lewis, Hocker was descended from early Virginia settler Ambrose Cobbs.

[3] Hocker studied law at the University of Virginia,[3] and in November 1868, he married Gertrude Venable and settled near Leesburg, Florida, in 1874.

He moved to Ocala in 1892, where he became circuit judge for the fifth circuit from 1893 to 1901,[1] when the Florida Legislature addressed the court's increasing workload "by authorizing the court to appoint three attorneys to act as commissioners and assist the court in performing its duties", with Hocker being appointed along with James F. Glen and Evelyn C.

[3] These appointments lasted until 1902, at which time Hocker was elected to a seat on the Florida Supreme Court vacated by the retirement of Chief Justice Milton H. Mabry.

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