Karen Russell Carroll (born February 7, 1963) is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the
Vermont Supreme Court
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since April 2017.
Early life
Karen Russell Carroll was born in
Newport on February 7, 1963, and raised in
Proctor
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; her family moved around the state based on her father's assignments as a member of the
Vermont State Police. Carroll's family has been involved in law enforcement for several generations; both her grandfather and great-grandfather were chief of police in
Burlington.
She is a 1981 graduate of Proctor High School, and graduated from
Salve Regina University with a
Bachelor of Arts and Science
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in
Criminal Justice
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and
English and
French Literature
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in 1985. She received her
Juris Doctor
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from
Vermont Law and Graduate School in 1988.
Career
Carroll's experience included: deputy
state’s attorney for
Windham County (1988–1994);
Special Assistant United States Attorney for the
District of Vermont (1994–2000); and assistant state attorney general with responsibility for prosecutions related to the Southern Vermont Drug Task Force (1994–2000).
From December 2000 to April 2017, Carroll was a judge of the
Vermont Superior Court. She presided over Family, Criminal and Civil Divisions in Windham,
Windsor, and
Bennington Counties, and was the first presiding judge of Vermont’s first
DUI Treatment Court, which is in Windsor County. 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.
Personal life
Carroll is a resident of
Vernon. She is married to Richard C. Carroll, who is a
partner in a
Brattleboro law firm. They are the parents of three children.
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1963 births
21st-century American judges
21st-century American women judges
American women lawyers
Assistant United States attorneys
Justices of the Vermont Supreme Court
Living people
People from Newport (city), Vermont
People from Vernon, Vermont
Salve Regina University alumni
Vermont Law and Graduate School alumni
Vermont lawyers