[1] He graduated from Enosburg Falls High School in 1909 and Phillips Exeter Academy in 1911.

[2] Jeffords worked in his father's drug store until 1915, when he decided to attend law school.

[3] He graduated from Boston University Law School in 1918, was admitted to the bar, and became an attorney.

[7] Jeffords rose by seniority to become the court's chief judge, a post he held briefly in 1938.

[9] In 1955 Jeffords became Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, succeeding John C. Sherburne, who had retired.