Julius A. Willcox

Julius A. Willcox (October 2, 1879 - July 2, 1932) was a Vermont educator, attorney, and judge. A longtime administrator in Vermont's state government, he is most notable for his service as an Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court from 1929 to 1931.

Julius Abner Willcox was born in Bridport, Vermont on October 2, 1879, the son of Edwin Willcox and Alice (Miner) Willcox. He was educated in Bridport, and Crown Point and Port Henry, New York. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1902, and became a school teacher and administrator.

After deciding on a legal career, Willcox studied law in the Ludlow office of William W. Stickney and John G. Sargent. He was admitted to the bar in 1908, and practiced in Ludlow.

Willcox was also active in politics and government as a Republican, including serving as the reporter of debates for the Vermont Senate in 1906, second assistant clerk of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1908 and 1910, first assistant clerk in 1912, 1915, and 1917, and clerk in 1919. In 1915 and 1916, Willcox was an assistant to the commission that revised Vermont's statutes, and in 1917 he was one of the editors who published the updated and compiled version.

In 1921, Willcox was appointed Secretary of Civil and Military Affairs (chief assistant) to Governor James Hartness. In addition, he served on Hartness' military staff with the rank of major.

After the August 1921 death of Zed S. Stanton, Hartness appointed Willcox to fill the resulting vacancy as a judge on the Vermont Superior Court. Willcox served until 1929.

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