Harold Edward “Duke” Eaton Jr. (born August 25, 1955) is a Vermont lawyer and jurist who was appointed to the

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in 2014.

Biography

Harold Edward Eaton Jr. (nicknamed "Duke") was born in

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, on August 25, 1955. He attended elementary and junior high school in

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and graduated from

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in 1973. Eaton graduated from the

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in 1977 with a

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degree in education. He is a 1980 graduate of

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. From 1980 to 1982, Eaton was a deputy

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for Chittenden County, and he was chief deputy state's attorney from 1982 to 1983. He practiced law in

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from 1983 to 1991. Eaton was a partner in Eaton & Hayes of Woodstock from 1991 to 2004. Eaton was appointed a judge of the

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by Governor

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on April 16, 2004. On October 27, 2014, Governor

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swore Eaton in as an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court. Eaton replaced

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, who was appointed judge of the

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References

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