Honorific-Prefix: | The Honorable |
Joseph F. Cooper | |
Office: | 5th Associate Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court |
Term Start: | June 17, 1901 |
Term End: | October 17, 1904 |
Appointer: | William Howard Taft |
Birth Date: | March 30, 1854 |
Joseph F. Cooper (March 30, 1854 – April 18, 1942) was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
Hailing from Texas, he was appointed as one of the first seven judges of the Supreme Court of the Philippines under American civilian rule.[1] During his three-year stint at the Court, he authored sixty-eight (68) decisions.