Samuel Estill Whitaker (September 25, 1886 – March 26, 1967) was a Tennessee attorney and later a judge of the United States Court of Claims.
He was in private practice in Chattanooga, Tennessee from 1909 to 1914, when he joined the United States Army at the outset of World War I.
He was an assistant attorney general for the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice in 1939.
[1] Whitaker was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 23, 1939, to a Judge seat on the Court of Claims (United States Court of Claims from June 25, 1948) vacated by Judge Richard S. Whaley.
His service terminated on March 26, 1967, due to his death in Washington, D.C.[1]