Wynn Thomas Underwood (August 27, 1927 – October 20, 2005) was an American attorney, political figure, and judge from Vermont.
[1] Wynn served his legal apprenticeship with Asa Bloomer in Rutland, and then practiced two years with Osmer C. Fitts in Brattleboro before opening his own law office in Middlebury.
During his term, a vacancy opened on the Vermont Superior Court, and Wynn was named to the position by joint election of the House and Senate.
[2] In a 1980 interview, Underwood said that as a result of this ruling, he received "poison-pen letters from the length and breadth of the United States.
"[2] In 1980, Governor Richard A. Snelling appointed Wynn to the Vermont Supreme Court as an associate justice, succeeding Rudolph J. Daley.
[2] After Snelling selected Frederic W. Allen, who was not previously a judge, to be chief justice in late 1984, Wynn abruptly resigned, stating that was disappointed in being passed over.
[2] The vacancy created by Underwood's resignation allowed the incoming governor, Democrat Madeleine Kunin, to make an appointment in her first year in office.