Walter Chadwick Noyes (August 8, 1865 - June 12, 1926) was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Noyes graduated Cornell University in 1888 and then read law for admission to the Connecticut bar. He worked as a lawyer in private practice in New London, Connecticut. Noyes served as a judge of the Connecticut Court of Common Pleas from 1895 to 1907. In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt selected Noyes as a Second Circuit judge. Noyes served on the court for just five and one-half years, from December 1907 to June 1913, before resigning and returning to private practice in New York City from 1913 until his death in 1926.
This article incorporates text obtained from the public domain Biographical Directory of Federal Judges compiled by the Federal Judicial Center.
