William Hamilton Walls (November 28, 1932[1] – July 11, 2019)[2] was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Walls received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Dartmouth College in 1954 and a Bachelor of Laws from Yale Law School in 1957.
On September 14, 1994, Walls was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey vacated by Harold A. Ackerman.
In 2017, Walls, who has a reputation for severe sentencing in political corruption cases, presided over the trial (which ended with a hung jury and mistrial) of US Senator Bob Menendez.
[3][4] The Justice Department declined to pursue the charges in a new trial.