Robert Wherry (judge)

Last updated

Robert Allen Wherry Jr. (born April 7, 1944 in Langley Field, Virginia) is a former judge of the United States Tax Court.

Contents

Education and career

Wherry earned his Bachelor of Science from the University of Colorado and his Juris Doctor from the University of Colorado School of Law, followed by a Master of Laws in Taxation from the New York University Law School. He is a fellow and former regent of the American College of Tax Counsel and a former chairman of the Taxation Section of the Colorado Bar Association. He has served as chairman of the Small-Business Tax Committee of the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry, as president of the Greater Denver Tax Counsel Association, is a past chairman of the Administrative Practice Committee of the American Bar Association Tax Section, a member of the Council, and a member of the Advisory Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America (in tax litigation). His articles have appeared in ALI-ABA publications, The Colorado Lawyer, Tax Notes, and State Tax Notes. He is the former Colorado correspondent for State Tax Notes and has spoken at numerous tax institutes, including the University of Denver Tax Institute and Tulane University Tax Institute and American Bar Association Tax Section programs. He was an instructor in Tax Court litigation for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.

Wherry was appointed by President George W. Bush as Judge, United States Tax Court, on April 23, 2003, for a term ending April 22, 2018. He retired from the Tax Court bench effective January 1, 2018. [1] [2]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Suthers</span> American attorney and politician (born 1951)

John William Suthers is an American attorney and politician who served as the mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado, the Attorney General of Colorado, U.S. Attorney for Colorado, executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, and Fourth Judicial District Attorney. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Carolyn P. Chiechi is a retired judge of the United States Tax Court.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Joseph H. Gale</span> American judge (born 1953)

Joseph Harold Gale is a former judge of the United States Tax Court.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Harry Haines</span> American judge (born 1939)

Harry Allen Haines is a judge of the United States Tax Court.

Mark Van Dyke Holmes is an American lawyer who serves as a senior judge of the United States Tax Court.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David Laro</span> American judge (1942–2018)

David Laro was an American senior judge of the United States Tax Court.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">L. Paige Marvel</span> American judge (born 1949)

Lynda Paige Marvel is an American lawyer who serves as a senior judge of the United States Tax Court.

Renato William Beghe was a judge of the United States Tax Court appointed by President George H. W. Bush.

Thomas Buell Wells is an American lawyer who served as a judge of the United States Tax Court.

Arthur Lee Nims III was an American federal judge who served on the United States Tax Court.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Julian Jacobs</span> American judge (born 1937)

Julian Isadore Jacobs is a former judge of the United States Tax Court.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hugo Teufel III</span> American lawyer

Hugo Teufel III is an American lawyer and former government official.

Ronald L. Olson is an American attorney and a partner in the Los Angeles office of Munger Tolles & Olson LLP. He was the lead attorney representing the board of directors of Yahoo! in connection with Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo!, and was contemporaneously involved in Yahoo!'s Google outsourcing contract.

James M. Lyons is an attorney at law in Denver, Colorado.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Frank Sander</span> American law professor (1927–2018)

Frank E. A. Sander was an American professor emeritus and associate dean of Harvard Law School. He pioneered the field of alternative dispute resolution and is widely credited with being a father of the field in the United States as a result of his paper, The Varieties of Dispute Processing, presented at the Pound Conference in 1976 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sander's book, Dispute Resolution: Negotiation, Mediation, and Other Processes, which he coauthored with Stephen B. Goldberg, Nancy H. Rogers, and Sarah Rudolph Cole, is used in law schools throughout the United States.

Blank Rome is a law firm with 16 offices and 750 attorneys and principals who provide legal and advocacy services to clients in the United States and around the world.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Juan F. Vasquez</span> American judge (born 1948)

Juan Flores Vasquez is an American lawyer who serves as a senior judge of the United States Tax Court.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Elizabeth A. Copeland</span> American judge (born 1964)

Elizabeth Ann Copeland is an American lawyer who serves as a judge of the United States Tax Court.

Michael J. Desmond is an American tax attorney and former federal government official. He previously served as the 48th Chief Counsel of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Assistant General Counsel in the Department of the Treasury. He was confirmed by the Senate on February 27, 2019 and began serving as Chief Counsel on March 4, 2019. Shortly before the Inauguration of Joe Biden, Desmond resigned from his position as Chief Counsel effective January 20, 2021, succeeded by Acting Chief Counsel William M. Paul.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Christian N. Weiler</span> American judge (born 1979)

Christian Neumann Weiler is an American tax lawyer from Louisiana who serves as a judge of the United States Tax Court.

References

  1. Vouri-Misso, K. Christy; Erickson, Elizabeth (January 8, 2018). "Senior Tax Court Judge Robert A. Wherry, Jr. Retires". www.taxcontroversy360.com. McDermott Will & Emery . Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  2. "PRESS RELEASE" (PDF) (Press release). United States Tax Court. January 3, 2018. Retrieved January 24, 2018.

Attribution

Material on this page was copied from the website of the United States Tax Court, which is published by a United States government agency, and is therefore in the public domain.