Board of Trustees

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

Officers

Glenn Berger, JD’78
Chair, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees
Adjunct Faculty
Expertise: Energy Law and Regulation

Scott Cullen, JD’97 
Treasurer, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees
Executive Director, GRACE Communications Foundation, New York, NY

Constance Neary, JD’89
Vice Chair, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees
Vice President for Risk Management (ret.), United Educators, Chevy Chase, MD

Rodney A. Smolla
President, Vermont Law and Graduate School
Expertise: Constitutional Law; Constitutional and Civil Liberties Law; Defamation and Libel Law

Members

Stephen F.W Ball Jr., JD’07

Member, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees
Partner, Husch Blackwell, Boston, MA

Kendra Brown, JD, VLGS ‘12

Member, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees
Vice President of Public Policy for Mastercard

Caryn Clayman, JD’83

Member, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees
Retired Attorney, Boca Raton, FL

Amy Davenport
Member, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees
Chief Administrative Judge, Vermont Superior Court Judge (ret.), Montpelier, VT

Charles Dileva, JD’78
Member, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees
Chief Officer for Environmental and Social Standards, World Bank

Holly Groschner, JD, VLGS ‘88
Member, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees
Former CEO, Vermont PBS

Marion Mccollom Hampton
Member, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees
Co-Founder and Senior Partner at Banyan Global Family Business Advisors, Belmont MA & Quechee, VT

Octavius Henderson 
Student Member, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees

Richard A. JohnsonI, JD’97
Member, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees
COO, Voi, Hanover, NH

J. Patrick Kennedy, JD’93
Member, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees
Vice President & Assistant General Counsel, Rockland Trust Company

J.B. Kittredge
Member, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees
General Counsel for Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. LLC (ret.)

Susan G. Lcaoste, MSEL’03, P’11, ‘20
Member, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees

Elizabeth Miller
Member, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees
Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, Green Mountain Power

Ian Montone, JD, VLGS ‘95
Member, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees
Founder and Producer, Monotone, Inc.; Co-founder, LBI Entertainment

Jessica Olson, JD’07
Member, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees
Head of Global Affairs, Americas, Topsoe

Jacob Perkinson, JD’95
Member, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees
Licensed Attorney

Jill Pfenning, JD’07
Member, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs & General Counsel, Vermont Gas Systems, Inc.

Mark Sciarrotta, JD’96
Member, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees
Assistant General Counsel, Vermont Electric Power Company, Inc., Montpelier, VT

John Westerman, JD ‘82
Westerman Ball Ederer Miller Zucker & Sharfstein, LLP
Member, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees

Staff and Faculty Representatives

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

Delcianna Winders
Director, Animal Law and Policy Institute
Associate Professor of Law
Faculty Representative, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees
Expertise: Animal Law

Scott Cameron, JD’80/H’11
Member Emeritus, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees
JD, Vermont Law and Graduate School, 1980

Ann T. Debevoise, H’05
Member Emerita, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees

Rick Shafer, JD’77
Member Emeritus, Vermont Law and Graduate School Board of Trustees