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Leadership of Vermont Law School, including board of trustees and administration.

Leadership & Administration - Board of Trustees

Officers

Glenn Berger
Chair, VLS Board of Trustees
Adjunct Faculty

Expertise: Energy Law and Regulation

Scott Cullen
Treasurer, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees
Executive Director, GRACE Communications Foundation, New York, NY
Sheppard A. Guryan
Secretary, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees
Member, Lasser Hochman, LLC, South Orange, NJ
Constance Neary
Vice Chair, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees
Vice President for Risk Management, United Educators, Chevy Chase, MD
Photograph of VLS President Rodney Smolla
President

Expertise: Constitutional Law; Constitutional and Civil Liberties Law; Defamation and Libel Law

Members

Steve Ball
Member, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees
Partner, Husch Blackwell, Boston, MA
photo of James Brien, JD ‘23
Member, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees
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Member, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees
Retired Attorney, Boca Raton, FL
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Member, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees
Chief Administrative Judge, Vermont Superior Court Judge (ret.), Montpelier, VT
Charles DiLeva
Member, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees
Chief Officer for Environmental and Social Standards, World Bank
Brian S. Dunkiel
Member, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees
General Counsel, Beta Technologies
Photograph of Chase Ford in a business suit
Member, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees
Marion McCollom
Member, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees
Co-Founder and Senior Partner at Banyan Global Family Business Advisors, Belmont MA & Quechee, VT
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Member, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees
COO, Voi, Hanover, NH
a photograph of J. Patrick Kennedy
Member, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees
Vice President & Assistant General Counsel, Rockland Trust Company
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Member, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees
Susan G. Lacoste, MSEL’03, P’11, ‘20
Member, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees
Catherine MacKenzie
Member, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees
Adjunct Faculty

Expertise: International Environmental Law; International Law

Elizabeth Miller
Member, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees
VP and Chief Legal Officer, Green Mountain Power
Jessica Olson
Member, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees
VP, Policy, CALSTART
Jacob Perkinson, '95
Member, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees
Licensed Attorney
Jill Pfenning
Member, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs & General Counsel, Vermont Gas Systems, Inc.
Mark Sciarrotta, Vermont Law School Trustees
Member, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees
Assistant General Counsel, Vermont Electric Power Company, Inc., Montpelier, VT

Staff and Faculty Representatives

Laurie Beyranevand
Director, Center for Agriculture and Food Systems
Professor of Law
Faculty Representative, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees

Expertise: Health Law; Administrative Law; Food Law and Policy

Katie Merrill, Vermont Law School
Assistant Dean of Admissions
Staff Representative, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees

Emeriti

Scott Cameron
Member Emeritus, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees
JD, Vermont Law School, 1980
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Member Emeritus, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees
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Member Emeritus, Vermont Law School Board of Trustees