Vermont Attorney General

The Vermont Attorney General is one of five cabinet-level constitutional offices in the state of Vermont . He is elected for two years. The office was formed by a constitutional act of the Vermont General Assembly in 1790, repealed in 1797, and revived in 1904. It began as a one-man office in Windsor , the state's first capital. When the function was revived in 1904, the office was housed in the Vermont State House . Today the office is located in the pavilion and is the largest employer for lawyers in the state. The Vermont Attorney General since 1997 is William Sorrell .

The office provides legal advice to all state agencies and the Vermont General Assembly, the state legislature. It deals with civil and criminal cases in all courts of the state, both for the first and for the second instance. It defends the state when it is sued in matters of criminal law, environmental protection, consumer protection and civil rights, as well as in other proceedings.

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The Attorney General is elected for a period of two years at the same time and in the same manner in conjunction with other national electoral offices.

List of Vermont Attorneys General

#	Auditor	image	Term of office	Party affiliation
1	Samuel Hitchcock		1790-1793	Non-party
2	Daniel Buck		1793-1795	Non-party
3	Vacant		1795-1797
4th	Repealed by the state legislature		1797-1904
5	Clarke C. Fitts		1904-1908	republican
6th	John G. Sargent		1908-1912	republican
7th	Rufus E. Brown		1912-1915	republican
8th	Herbert G. Barber		1915-1919	republican
9	Frank C. Archibald		1919-1925	republican
10	J. Ward Carver (appointed after resignation)		1925-1931	republican
11	Lawrence C. Jones		1931-1941	republican
12	Alban J. Parker		1941-1947	republican
13	Clifton G. Parker		1947-1953	republican
14th	F. Elliott Barber		1953-1955	republican
15th	Robert Stafford		1955-1957	republican
16	Frederick M. Reed		1957-1960	republican
17th	Thomas M. Debevoise (appointed after resigning)		1960–1962	republican
18th	Charles J. Adams (appointed after a resignation)		1962-1963	republican
19th	Charles E. Gibson		1963-1965	republican
20th	John P. Connarn		1965-1967	democrat
21st	James L. Oakes		1967-1969	republican
22nd	Jim Jeffords		1969-1973	republican
23	Kimberly B. Cheney		1973-1975	republican
24	M. Jerome Diamond		1975-1981	democrat
25th	John J. Easton		1981-1985	republican
26th	Jeffrey Amestoy		1985-1997	republican
27	William Sorrell (appointed after resigning)		1997-2017	democrat
28	TJ Donovan		since 2017	democrat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official site ( Memento of March 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ 3 VSA §151

Web links

• Official site of the Vermont Attorney General