Samuel B. Sterrett

Samuel Black Sterrett (December 17, 1922 – September 8, 2013) was a judge of the United States Tax Court from 1968 to 1988.

Early life and education Sterrett was born in Washington, D.C., and received his early education at St. Albans School. Later, he attended Amherst College in 1947 and the University of Virginia School of Law in 1950. He graduated from New York University School of Law with a Master of Laws in Taxation in 1959. He serve as chief judge in 1985 and again in 1987.

Personal life and death Sterrett married Jeane McBride, with whom he celebrated 64 years of marriage before his death, and with whom he had two sons and a daughter.

He died at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, shortly after returning from his summer residence in Lake Placid, New York, at the age of 90.