Marilyn Skoglund

Marilyn Skoglund (born August 15, 1946) is an Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court. She is well known for having attained admission to the bar and appointment to the bench despite not having gone to law school.

Life and career

Marilyn Ruth Signe Skoglund was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 15, 1946, and was raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in fine arts from Southern Illinois University in 1971,[1] and settled in Plainfield, Vermont in 1973 when her then-husband accepted a teaching position at Goddard College. She was divorced shortly afterwards.[2]

Skoglund attended the paralegal program at Montpelier's Woodbury College.[3] She read the law[4] while working in the Vermont Attorney General's office, a practice still permitted in Vermont, and became an attorney in 1978.

After receiving her law license Skoglund continued her career in the Vermont Attorney General's office. Her assignments included: Special Assistant Attorney General (1978-1981); Assistant Attorney General (1981-1989); Chief of the Civil Law Division (1989-1993); and Chief of the Public Protection Division (1993-1994).[5]

In 1994 Skoglund was appointed to the Vermont District Court. She served until 1997, when she was appointed to the Vermont Supreme Court.[6]

Justice Skoglund was continued in office by the state Judicial Retention Committee in 2005[7] and 2011.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Pete Rosenbery, Law school to host Skoglund as jurist-in-residence, The Southern Illinoisan, March 20, 2009
  2. ↑ Times Argus, Obituary, Duncan Mitchell, January 8, 2010
  3. ↑ Pamela Polston, The court's jester Marilyn Skoglund is a honkytonk singer, gun toter, comic, art aficionado, poker player and, oh yes, a respected Supreme Court justice, March 9, 2002
  4. ↑ Associated Press, Not all lawyers are law school grads, Reading Eagle, October 10, 2005
  5. ↑ Forster-Long, Inc., The American Bench, 2008, page 2444
  6. ↑ Vermont Supreme Court, Biography, Marilyn Skoglund, accessed December 24, 2012
  7. ↑ Nancy Remsen, Panel votes for new terms for justices, Burlington Free Press, February 25, 2005
  8. ↑ Boston Globe, Vt. lawmakers vote to keep judges, March 30, 2011
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