Walter T. Cox III (born August 13, 1942) is an American lawyer who serves as a Senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces from 1984 to 1999. Walter Thompson Cox III was born on August 13, 1942, in Anderson, South Carolina, the son of Walter Thompson Cox, Jr., an official at Clemson University for almost fifty years. He attended D. W. Daniel High School in Clemson and became an Eagle Scout. He graduated from Clemson University with a Bachelor of Science in 1964 and from University of South Carolina School of Law in 1967. He joined the army in May 1964 and attended the Defense Language Institute and then served as the Liaison Officer to the Minister of Justice for the State of Bavaria and as the Liaison Officer to the American Embassy in Austria. He left the army