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Vermont Law School Board of Trustees:

Officers:

  • Edward C. Mattes '83, Chair; Co-founder and CEO Avant Garde Therapeutics and Technologies LLC, Tuxedo Park, N.Y.
  • Geoffrey B. Shields, (Trustee Ex-Officio), Vermont Law School President, Dean, and Professor of Law, South Royalton, Vt.
  • Perez Ehrich, Vice Chair; Principal, Hemmings Mustang Market & Tech Guides, Bennington, Vt.
  • Lorraine Atwood, Treasurer; Vice President for Finance and Administration, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, Vt.
  • Helen McCarthy, Secretary; Special Assistant to the President and Dean, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, Vt.

Members:

  • Richard E. Ayres, Principal, Ayres Law Group, Washington, D.C.
  • Edna Baugh '83, Partner, Stephens & Baugh, LLC, Maplewood, N.J.
  • Glenn J. Berger '78, Partner, Energy Project Finance and Development Group, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Washington, D.C.
  • Randolph D. Brock III, State Senator, State of Vermont, St. Albans, Vt.
  • James Clemons '91, Shareholder, Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer, Montpelier, Vt.
  • Colleen Connor '85, Manager and Counsel, Transaction-Environmental Protection, General Electric Company, Fairfield, Conn.
  • M. Jerome Diamond, Partner, Diamond & Robinson PC, Montpelier, Vt.
  • Christopher Dutton, President and CEO, Vermont Electric Power Company, Rutland, Vt.
  • Robert Fiske, Jr., Senior Counsel, Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, N.Y.
  • Sheppard Guryan, Managing Member, Lasser Hochman, LLC, Roseland, N.J.
  • The Honorable Peter W. Hall, United States Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Rutland, Vt.
  • James Hanson II '83, President and CEO, Hampshire Real Estate Company, Morristown, N.J.
  • Randy A. Hertz, Vice Dean and Director, Clinical and Advocacy Programs, New York University School of Law, New York, N.Y.
  • Jason Hutt '98 (Alumni Trustee), Partner, Bracewell & Guiliani LLP, Washington, D.C.
  • Gerard Jones, former Partner, Richards & O'Neil, L.L.P. in New York, Woodstock, Vt.
  • William Leckerling, '82 Partner, Lisman, Webster & Leckerling, P.C., Burlington, Vt.
  • William Lytton, Senior Counsel, Dechert LLP, New Canaan, Conn.
  • Mathew Matule, '94, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Boston, Mass.
  • George C. McKann, Partner, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Chicago, Ill.
  • Kevin Mendik ‘87, Environmental Protection Specialist, National Park Service, Boston, Mass.
  • Robert D. Rachlin, Senior Director, Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC, Burlington, Vt.
  • Mark Sciarrotta '96 (Alumni Trustee), Senior Counsel, Vermont Electric Power Company, Inc. Rutland, Vt.
  • Charles E. "Rick" Shafer '77, Of Counsel, Riehlmam Shafer & Shafer, Tully, N.Y., President, Green Lake Associates, Tully, N.Y.
  • Richard Sala '13, Vermont Law School Student Trustee, South Royalton, Vt.
  • Robert Taisey, Partner, Holland & Knight, New York, N.Y.
  • Ashley van der Lande '12, Vermont Law School Student Trustee, South Royalton, Vt.
  • Mary G. Wilson, Partner, Health Law Department, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, Chicago, Ill.
  • Frances E. Yates, PhD, Camden, Maine

Staff and Faculty Representatives to the Board of Trustees:

  • Jackie Gardina, Vermont Law School Faculty Representative; Professor of Law
  • John Miller, Vermont Law School Staff Representative; Assistant Director, Admissions

Trustees Emeriti:

Vermont Law School Administration:

  • Geoffrey B. Shields, President, Dean, and Professor of Law
  • Susan Apel, Director of General Practice Program and Professor of Law
  • Abby Armstrong '84, Director of Career Services
  • Lorraine Atwood, Vice President for Finance and Administration
  • Margaret Barry, Acting Associate Dean for Clinical and Experiential Programs and Visiting Professor of Law
  • Teresa Clemmer, Acting Director of the Environmental Clinics and Associate Professor of Law
  • Liz Ryan Cole, Director of the Semester in Practice Program and Professor of Law
  • Courtney Collins, Assistant Director for the Environmental Law Center
  • John Cramer, Associate Director of Media Relations
  • Kimberly Evans, Associate Director of Advancement
  • Stephanie Farrior, Director of the International and Comparative Law Programs and Professor of Law
  • Clara Gimenez, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs
  • Kathy Hartman, Associate Dean for Enrollment Management
  • Diane Hayes, Director of Human Resources
  • Dorothy Heinrichs, Director of Principal Giving
  • Shirley Jefferson '86, Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Diversity
  • Gregory Johnson, Director of the Legal Writing Program and Professor of Law
  • Gil Kujovich, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law
  • Kathy Maieli, Director Academic Procedures and Registrar
  • James C. May, Director of the South Royalton Legal Clinic and Professor of Law
  • Helen McCarthy, Special Assistant to the President and Dean, Secretary of the Board of Trustees
  • Marc Mihaly, Associate Dean for the Environmental Program and Director of the Environmental Law Center and Professor of Law.
  • Sean Nolon, Director of the Dispute Resolution Program
  • Patrick A. Parenteau, Senior Counsel to the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic and Professor of Law
  • Matthew Rizzo, Executive Director for Office of Institutional Advancement
  • Rachel Sauerwein, Executive Assistant to the President and Dean
  • Dennis Stern, Vice President for Operations
  • Duncan Sutherland, Director of Information Technology
  • Carol Westberg, Director of Marketing and Communications

Vermont Law School Library Administration:

  • Carl A. Yirka, Director of the Julien and Virginia Cornell Library and Professor of Law
  • Cynthia Lewis, Lawyer Librarian and Head of Public Services
  • Jane Woldow, Lawyer Librarian and Head of Collection Management

Advisory Board Committees:

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