Alfred C. Lockwood Explained

Alfred C. Lockwood
Office:Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court
Term Start:January 1941
Term End:December 1942
Predecessor:Henry D. Ross
Successor:Archibald G. McAlister
Term Start1:January 1935
Term End1:December 1936
Predecessor1:Henry D. Ross
Successor1:Archibald G. McAlister
Term Start2:January 1, 1929
Term End2:December 1930
Predecessor2:Henry D. Ross
Successor2:Archibald G. McAlister
Office3:Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court
Term Start3:January 5, 1925
Term End3:January 4, 1943
Predecessor3:Frank H. Lyman
Successor3:Rawghlie Clement Stanford
Birth Date:20 July 1875
Birth Place:Ottawa, Illinois
Death Place:Phoenix, Arizona
Children:Lorna E. Lockwood

Alfred C. Lockwood (July 20, 1875 – October 29, 1951) was an American jurist and politician. Before his election to the Arizona Supreme Court, he served as a judge for the Superior Court of Cochise County.

Lockwood was born in Ottawa, Illinois. His father, W. C. Lockwood, was a native of Ohio, but for many years practiced law in Illinois, and became a prominent attorneys of that state. Lockwood's mother, Elizabeth Peers Lockwood, was also native of Illinois, and a descendant of Jonathan Edwards and Cotton Mather. Lockwood graduated from high school in Collinsville, Illinois, in 1891. He moved to Arizona in 1893 and for five years was employed as a teacher at the seminal school in Cave Creek. Lockwood was admitted to the Arizona Bar in 1902.[1]

After he was admitted, he practiced in Nogales before moving to Douglas, where he entered private practice until he was appointed Judge of Cochise County by Governor George W. P. Hunt, in July, 1913, to succeed Judge Fred Sutter. At the time, Lockwood was one of the youngest judges in Arizona. Lockwood was elected three times as City Attorney in Douglas. Lockwood married to Miss Daisy M. Lincoln in Douglas on June 15, 1902, and they had 3 children. Lockwood's daughter, Lorna E. Lockwood, went on to serve as the first woman on the Arizona Supreme Court.

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