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property appraiser to work here, serving on the Board of Equalization in 1997. Beginning in June 1999, Herrema became a member of the Board of Zoning Appeals.
A native of Rochester, N. Y., Herrema moved to Washington, D C. after obtaining an engineering degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree from Marshall University in Huntington, W. Va. Hej soon became active in the Young Republicans organization, which led to a job as administrative assistant to newly elected Rep. Lowell Weicker (R-CT).
When Weicker was elected to the Senate two years later in 1970, Herrema became his chief of staff and remained in that position during Weicker’s first six-year term in office.
Weicker rose to prominence as a member of a special Senate committee investigating the Watergate scandals. His probing questioning of White House aides John W. Dean, H. R. Haldeman, and others provided some of the most dramatic moments during the televised hearings. Herrema managed Weicker’s successful Senate re-election campaign in 1976.
After leaving politics a year later, Herrema and his family settled in the residential community of Capitol Hill, just east of the Capitol grounds. There he founded Robert Herrema Associates, a real estate development company that bought and restored over 30 commercial and residential properties in the District between 1977-1993, most of them in the Capitol Hill section. His renovation
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