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Vermont Law School Board of Trustees:

Officers:

  • J. Scott Cameron '80, Chair; Zalinger Cameron and Lambek, P.C., Montpelier, Vt.
  • Ed Mattes '83, Vice Chair; former Partner, Ogdon Partnership, Tuxedo Park, N.Y.
  • Geoffrey B. Shields, (Trustee Ex-Officio), Vermont Law School President, Dean, and Professor of Law
  • Lorraine Atwood, Treasurer; Vice President for Finance and Administration, Vermont Law School
  • Helen McCarthy, Secretary; Special Assistant to the President and Dean, Vermont Law School

Members:

  • Lori Arviso Alvord, MD, Associate Dean of Student and Multicultural Affairs, and Assistant Professor of Surgery and of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, N.H.
  • Richard E. Ayres, Principal, Ayres Law Group, Washington, D.C.
  • Glenn J. Berger '78, Partner, Energy Project Finance and Development Group, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Washington, D.C.
  • Randolph Brock, Former State Treasurer, St. Albans, Vt.
  • Kimberly Chehardy '09, Vermont Law School Student Trustee  
  • Edwin I. Colodny, of Counsel to Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew PC, Burlington, Vt.
  • Colleen Connor '85 (Alumni Trustee), Manager and Counsel, Transaction-Environmental Protection, General Electric Company, Fairfield, Conn.
  • Cara Cookson ‘10, Vermont Law School Student
  • M. Jerome Diamond, Partner, Diamond & Robinson PC, Montpelier, Vt.
  • Christopher Dutton, President and CEO, Green Mountain Power, Colchester, Vt.
  • Perez Ehrich, Principal, Hemmings Mustang Market debevoise& Tech Guides, Bennington, Vt.
  • Jan Forgays '85, Vice President-Advanced Markets, Sun Life Financial, Wellesley Hills, Mass.
  • Sheppard Guryan, Member, Lasser Hochman, LLC, Roseland, N.J.
  • The Honorable Peter Hall, 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, Rutland, Vt.
  • James Hanson II '83, President and CEO, Hampshire Real Estate Company, Morristown, N.J.
  • Randy A. Hertz, Director, Clinical and Advocacy Programs, New York University School of Law, New York, N.Y.
  • Gerard Jones, former Partner, Richards & O'Neil, L.L.P. in New York, Woodstock, Vt.
  • John Kessler '88, (Alumni Trustee) General Counsel, Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development, Montpelier, Vt.
  • William Leckerling, '82 Partner, Lisman, Webster & Leckerling, Burlington, Vt. 
  • William Lytton, former Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of Tyco International Ltd., New Canaan, Conn.
  • Lori Malloy, Attorney, New York, N.Y.
  • Mathew Matule, '94, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Boston, Mass. 
  • George C. McKann, Partner, Drinker Biddle Gardner Carton, Chicago, Ill.
  • Kevin Mendik ‘87, National Park Service, Boston, Mass.
  • Robert D. Rachlin, Partner, Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC, Burlington, Vt.
  • Norman Redlich, Of Counsel, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, former dean and Judge Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law Emeritus, New York University Law School, New York, N.Y.
  • Charles E. "Rick" Shafer '77, President, Green Lake Associates, Tully, N.Y.
  • David Thelander, '87, Deloitte and Touche LLP, Mill Valley, Calif.
  • Mary G. Wilson, Partner, Health Law Department, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, Chicago, Ill.
  • Frances E. Yates, Ph.D., Camden, Maine

Staff and Faculty Representatives to the Board of Trustees:

  • Stephen Dycus, Vermont Law School Faculty Representative; Professor of Law
  • Diane Derby, Vermont Law School Staff Representative; Director of Media Relations

Trustees Emeriti:

Vermont Law School Administration:

  • Geoffrey B. Shields, President, Dean, and Professor of Law
  • Lorraine Atwood, Vice President for Finance and Administration
  • Kathy Hartman, Associate Dean for Enrollment Management
  • Michael J. Healy, Assistant Vice President for Foundation and Corporate Relations
  • Dorothy Behlen Heinrichs, Vice President for Institutional Advancement
  • Shirley Jefferson '86, Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Diversity
  • Marc Mihaly, Associate Dean for the Environmental Program and Director of the Environmental Law Center and Associate Professor of Law
  • Stephanie J. Willbanks, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law
  • Clara Gimenez, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs
  • Susan Apel, Director of General Practice Program and Professor of Law
  • Abby Armstrong '84, Director of Career Services
  • Liz Ryan Cole, Director of the Semester in Practice Program and Professor of Law
  • Susan Davidson, Director of Alumni Programming and Annual Giving
  • Diane Derby, Director of Media Relations 
  • Jeanne Eicks '96, Director of Technology
  • Rebecca Flanagan, Director of the Academic Success Program
  • Diane Hayes, Director of Human Resources
  • Jennifer Hayslett, Director of Leadership Gifts and the Annual Fund   
  • James C. May, Director of South Royalton Legal Clinic and Professor of Law
  • Helen McCarthy, Special Assistant to the President and Dean, Secretary of the Board of Trustees 
  • David Mears '91, Director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic and Associate Professor of Law
  • Gregory Johnson, Director of Legal Writing Program and Professor of Law
  • Sean Nolon, Director of Alternative Dispute Resolution 
  • Patrick A. Parenteau, Senior Counsel to the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic and Professor of Law
  • Jennifer Sargent, Director of Judicial and Part-time JD Externships and Assistant Professor of Law
  • Stephanie Farrior, Director of International and Comparative Law Programs and Professor of Law
  • Nina L. Thomas, Director of Academic Procedures and Registrar
  • 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
  • Susan Zeigfinger, Associate Librarian for Technical Services
  • Christine Ryan, Reference Librarian for Environmental Services
  • Cynthia Lewis, Lawyer Librarian 
  • Jane Woldow, Lawyer Librarian 

Environmental Law Center Administration:

  • Marc Mihaly, Director
  • Anne Mansfield, Associate Director
  • Jane D'Antonio, Assistant Director 

Environmental Law Center Advisory Committee:

  • Richard Ayres, Esq., Ayres Law Group, Washington, D.C.
  • Douglas Costle, Former Dean of Vermont Law School, Chair Emeritus of Institute for Sustainable Communities, MacLean, Va.
  • Brian Dunkiel, Shems Dunkiel & Kassel, Burlington, Vt.
  • Susan E. Farady, The Ocean Conservancy, Portland, Maine
  • Sandy Hauserman, Guy Carpenter & Co., Inc., New York, N.Y.
  • Barry Hill, Office of Environmental Justice, EPA, Washington, D.C.
  • Matt Huntington '97, Emerging Vehicles, LLC, Cambridge, Mass.
  • Thomas Jorling, Williamstown, Mass.
  • Nancy Marks, Senior Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council Inc., Washington, D.C.
  • Kevin Mendik '87, National Park Service, Environmental Compliance, Boston, Mass.
  • Joseph Perella '88, United States Attorney's Office, Burlington, Vt.
  • Daniel W. Reicher, Northern Power Systems, Waitsfield, Vt.
  • Peter Van Oot, Downs Rachlin & Martin, PLLC, Brattleboro, Vt.
  • Tammara Van Ryn '90, Land Trust Alliance, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
  • LaJuana S. Wilcher, Secretary, Cabinet for Environmental and Public Protection, Commonwealth of Kentucky, Frankfort, Ky.
  • David A. Wirth, Boston College Law School, Newton, Mass.

International and Comparative Law Programs Advisory Board:

  • Carol Bellamy, President and CEO of World Learning and President of its School for International Training. Formerly: Executive Director of UNICEF; President of the New York City Council; Director of the Peace Corps. Brattleboro, Vt.
  • Judge Mary McGowan Davis, has served as a judge on the New York Supreme Court and as a consultant to the International Legal Foundation, for which she has mentored Afghan lawyers. Served as a consultant to the International Process and Justice Project at Trinity College, Dublin; and is a member of the managerial boards of the American Association of Women Judges. Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • The Honorable Madeleine M. Kunin, Distinguished Visiting Professor, the University of Vermont and St. Michael’s College. Formerly: Governor of Vermont; Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education; U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland. Burlington, Vt.
  • The Honorable Peter Leuprecht, Director, Institute for International Studies, University of Quebec at Montreal; U.N. Representative for the Secretary-General for Human Rights in Cambodia. Formerly: member of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights; Director of Human Rights of the Council of Europe; Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe; Dean of the Faculty of Law, McGill University. Montreal, Canada
  • George C. McKann, Esq., Member of the Vermont Law School Board of Trustees; partner in the Chicago office of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP and past chair of the firm’s International Practice Group. Formerly: President of the World Law Group, an international network of independent firms located in the major commercial cities around the world. Chicago, Ill.
  • Bruce Proctor, Esq. ’82, Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property with Diageo PLC. Norwalk, Conn.
  • Yvonne Scannell, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law at Trinity College, Dublin; has written six books on environmental law, as well as many articles and book chapters; has served on and chaired many Irish and international environmental organizations, and is a barrister and a counselor to the Irish government on matters involving environmental law and policy. Dublin, Ireland.
  • Judge Stephen Schwebel, Legal Advisor to the World Bank. Formerly: taught international law at Johns Hopkins University and served at various positions in the U. S. Department of State; member of the United Nations International Law Commission from 1977–80; served on International Court of Justice 1981–2000 and President of the court from 1997–2000. Washington, D.C.
  • Mr. Christopher Wren, Public broadcasting commentator. Formerly: New York Times Correspondent and Bureau Chief in Moscow; Bureau Chief in Cairo, Beijing, Ottawa, and Johannesburg; United Nations Correspondent. Fairlee, Vt.
  • Peter D. Trooboff, Esq., Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP, has practiced extensively in the field of international trade and investment and advised clients on issues relating to transnational litigation; member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law. Formerly: President of the American Society of International Law. Washington, D.C.
  • The Honorable Kenneth Yalowitz, Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. Formerly: US Ambassador to the Republic of Belarus and to Georgia; career diplomat and member of the Senior Foreign Service. Hanover, N.H.

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