Peg Elmer

Peg Elmer joined Vermont Law School as associate director of the Land Use Institute. As assistant to the secretary of the Agency of Natural Resources, she worked on Governor Kunin's Commission on Vermont's Future, which led to the reform for state, regional, and local planning codified in 1988 as Act 200. From 1989 until 1993, she was director of the Vermont Natural Resource Council’s Land Use Policy Program, engaging in lobbying as well as citizen education and assistance. Ms. Elmer joined the Department of Housing and Community Affairs in 1993, becoming director of the Community Planning Program. She is the president of the Northern New England Chapter of the American Planning Association, a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, and a 1997 associate of the Snelling Center for Government’s Leadership Institute.