Marilyn Skoglund

Marilyn Skoglund
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Current Court Information:
Vermont Supreme Court
Title:	Justice
Service:
Appointed by:	Howard Dean
Active:	1990 - present
Past post:	Vermont Human Rights Commission
Past term:	1988 - 1990
Past position:	Chair
Personal History
Party:	Democratic
Bachelors:	Southern Illinois University, 1971

Marilyn Skoglund is an Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court. She was appointed to the court in 1997. She will be up for a retention election by the General Assembly in March 2011.

Education

Justice Skoglund graduated from Southern Illinois University with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts in 1971. In lieu of attending law school, she completed a law-office clerkship at the Office of the Attorney General, where she went on to serve as Assistant Attorney General, Chief of the Civil Law Division, and Chief of the Public Protection Division.

Career

Justice Skoglund was appointed to the District Court in 1994, and became the second woman to serve as an Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court on August 27, 1997. Shortly after taking office, Justice Skoglund started the Art in the Supreme Court program, through which she has exhibited the work of more than fifty artists—mostly Vermonters. She served on the Board of the Vermont Bar Foundation until 2006. She currently serves on the board of the Justice for Children Task Force and as the Chair of the Court’s Judicial Education Committee.

External links

• Vermont Supreme Court, Honorable Marilyn Skoglund, Associate Justice
• Project Vote Smart, Associate Justice Marilyn Skoglund (VT)
• Rutland Herald, "Vermont Supreme Court overturns hate-crimes injunction in Woodstock case", June 22, 2010
• Boston.com, "Vt. Supreme Court tosses sex conviction", August 29, 2008
• The Chronicle, "High court nixed flying pot search", April 9, 2008
• Vermont Woman, "In Chambers with Vermont's Supreme Court Justice Denise Johnson & Marilyn Skoglund"

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