Sterry R. Waterman

Sterry Robinson Waterman (June 12, 1901 – February 6, 1984) was a lawyer and federal judge from Vermont.

Sterry Waterman was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 12, 1901. He graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College in 1922. He attended Harvard Law School and then moved to Washington, D.C. to accept a position with the federal Commissioner of Immigration while continuing his studies at George Washington University Law School. He passed the bar exam in 1926 needing to complete one course before graduating, ended his studies, and began to practice, first in Washington, D.C and later in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.

Active in Republican politics, he was State's Attorney for Caledonia County from 1933 to 1937 and Assistant Secretary of the Vermont State Senate from 1933 to 1940. He served as general counsel of the Vermont Unemployment Compensation Commission for four years, a delegate to the 1936 Republican National Convention, a member of the commission to investigate the Vermont Court System from 1935 to 1937, and a member of the Vermont Uniform State Laws Commission from 1938 to 1958.

In the 1930s and 1940s Waterman was a founder and leader of the Vermont Young Republicans, and was recognized as a leader of the progressive wing of Vermont's Republican party, which included George Aiken and Ernest Gibson, Jr. (Gibson and Waterman had attended law school together, and Gibson was Secretary of the Vermont Senate when Waterman was Assistant Secretary.) Waterman managed Aiken's successful 1936 campaign for Governor, and in 1946 was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate, losing the Republican primary to Ralph E. Flanders, who went on to win the general election.

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