Tom Little
August 24th, 2010See below or click here: Little bio PDF
Tom Little, a resident of Shelburne and the town moderator since 2002, joined VSAC in 2002 as vice president and general counsel after serving many years as outside counsel. Tom handles a wide variety of VSAC’s legal services, including contracts, regulatory compliance, bond financing, and litigation. He also has responsibility for VSAC’s internal audit and risk management department and leads efforts to raise scholarship funds. Tom was an attorney with the Burlington firm Little, Cicchetti & Conard from 1980 to 2002 and is now of counsel to the firm. He was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1992 to 2002, serving on the Fish & Wildlife, Ways & Means, and Judiciary committees, as well as on the Judicial Retention and Joint Fiscal committees. He has served on the following boards: University of Vermont, Shelburne Zoning, ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Visiting Nurse Association, The Converse Home, Cathedral Square Housing Corporation, Vermont Center for the Book, and Snelling Center for Government. He has been chair of the District 4 Environmental Commission (Vermont’s Act 250 land-use permit commission for Chittenden County) since 2003. Tom is the chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont, chaired the Lawyers Caucus of the National Council of Higher Education Loan Programs, and was a member of the Commission on the Future of Vermont’s Justice System. Tom received a bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College and a law degree from Cornell University.