Karen Carroll | |
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Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court | |
Assumed office April 26, 2017 | |
Appointed by | Phil Scott |
Preceded by | John Dooley |
Personal details | |
Born | Newport,Vermont,U.S. | February 7,1963
Education | Salve Regina University (BA) Vermont Law School (JD) |
Karen Russell Carroll (born February 7,1963) is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the Vermont Supreme Court since April 2017.
Karen Russell Carroll was born in Newport on February 7,1963,and raised in Proctor; [1] her family moved around the state based on her father's assignments as a member of the Vermont State Police. [2] Carroll's family has been involved in law enforcement for several generations;both her grandfather and great-grandfather were chief of police in Burlington. [2]
She is a 1981 graduate of Proctor High School, [1] and graduated from Salve Regina University with a Bachelor of Arts and Science in Criminal Justice and English and French Literature in 1985. [1] She received her Juris Doctor from Vermont Law and Graduate School in 1988. [1]
Carroll's experience included:deputy state’s attorney for Windham County (1988–1994); [1] Special Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Vermont (1994–2000); [1] and assistant state attorney general with responsibility for prosecutions related to the Southern Vermont Drug Task Force (1994–2000). [1]
From December 2000 to April 2017,Carroll was a judge of the Vermont Superior Court. [1] She presided over Family,Criminal and Civil Divisions in Windham,Windsor,and Bennington Counties, [1] and was the first presiding judge of Vermont’s first DUI Treatment Court,which is in Windsor County. [2] She has also been an instructor at the Vermont Police Academy and she has taught Criminal Procedure and Criminal Law at the Community College of Vermont. [2]
Carroll is a resident of Vernon. [1] She is married to Richard C. Carroll,who is a partner in a Brattleboro law firm. [1] They are the parents of three children. [1]
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