T. Scott Offutt

Thiemann Scott Offutt (June 12, 1872 – December 24, 1943) was an American lawyer who served as a justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals from 1920 to 1942.

Early life, education, and career Born in Montgomery County, Maryland, on the large farm of William Scott and Henrietta (Baker) Offutt, he attended the local public schools before entering the University of Virginia in 1891 and attending for two years, and also attending St. John's College in Annapolis. He was reported to have "practiced law extensively as a trial lawyer". Offutt was sworn in on April 6, 1920. While serving on the bench, he also served as president of the Maryland State Bar Association, from 1923 to 1924, with whom he had three children.

In the late 1930s, his son John I. Yellott Offutt died by drowning in Ocean City, Maryland, and not long after, Offutt had a stroke that left him partially paralyzed. He died three and a half years later in Baltimore, Maryland, after several bouts of pneumonia, at the age of 71, and was interred in Prospect Hill Cemetery in Towson, Maryland.