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Hon. Carrol S. Walsh, Jr., JHS Class of 1938
Following his graduation from JHS, Carrol S. Walsh, Jr. continued his education at Notre Dame and St. Lawrence Universities. Serving in the United States Army from 1942 to 1945, he saw combat in the European Theater and was the recipient of five Battle Stars, a Purple Heart and a Battle Field Commission. After graduating from Albany Law School in 1946, he was a private practice attorney in Johnstown until 1968. During that time he also held positions as the Johnstown City Attorney, the Assistant City Court Judge and President of the Fulton County Bar Association.

In 1969 he began a nine-year tenure as Fulton County Court Judge and Surrogate, presiding over criminal trials, reviewing appeals from city, town and village courts and having jurisdiction over cases involving decedents. During that time Judge Walsh often served as acting Supreme Court Justice by Assignment in the counties of Schenectady, Saratoga, Clinton, Warren, Essex, Montgomery and Fulton and as County Judge by Special Assignment of the Appellate Division in the counties of Nassau, Rockland and Franklin. He was also a member of the Criminal Procedure Law Advisory Board to the State Office of Court Administration. From 1978 until his retirement in 1990, he enjoyed a career as a Supreme Court Justice in the Fourth Judicial District of New York State, hearing cases outside the jurisdiction of lower trial courts.

Judge Walsh is a former director of Community Chest, the Johnstown Public Library, the Y.M.C.A. and the State Bank of Albany, and was a coach for Little League, Babe Ruth League and C.Y.O. A lifelong resident of Johnstown, he continues to remain active in numerous fraternal and veterans organizations.
 
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