This just in from the Court Administrator’s Office:
Montpelier, VT – The State Court Administrator’s Office announces that Associate Justice Karen R. Carroll has notified Governor Phil Scott of her intent to retire from the Vermont Supreme Court in August 2025.
Justice Carroll was sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court by Governor Scott in April 2017. Prior to her service on the Vermont Supreme Court, Justice Carroll presided as a Superior Court Judge in the Criminal, Civil and Family Divisions in Windham, Windsor and Bennington Counties after being appointed by Governor Howard Dean as a trial court judge in December 2000. A native Vermonter, Justice Carroll graduated from Proctor High School, Salve Regina College and Vermont Law School before serving as a deputy state’s attorney in Windham County from 1988 – 1994 prosecuting serious felony cases. She then served in the Vermont Attorney General’s Office as the Prosecutor for the Southern Vermont Drug Task Force and was also designated as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont until her appointment to the trial bench in 2000.
Chief Justice Paul Reiber expressed his deep gratitude to Justice Carroll for her dedicated service to Vermonters. “Justice Carroll has had an outstanding legal career as a lawyer, prosecutor and jurist. Court users have benefitted greatly from her tireless service on the bench and from her long-standing commitment to access to justice principles. The Judiciary wishes Justice Carroll all the best in her upcoming well-deserved retirement.”
Justice Carroll served on numerous state-wide committees and commissions during her distinguished career and presently serves as Chair of the Access to Justice Coalition as well as Co-Chair of the Vermont Judiciary Committee on Mental Health and the Courts.
