ABOUT TIM JERMAN
A resident of Essex Junction for 28 years and Vermont for 38, Tim grew up in Stamford, Connecticut. He graduated from Stamford High (1966), the University of Connecticut (1970, BA Political Science), and Northeastern University (1975-M.ed Education). He has worked at the Vermont Student Assistance Corporation for the past 30 years, as an Outreach Counselor, Director of Publications, Director of Human Resources, and Director of Development. Tim has two grown daughters, Kate and Jenna, who attended Summit, Feming, ADL, and Essex High School before going on to complete college. While they were growing up, Tim coached soccer and basketball through the youth recreation leagues.
In 2001, he was elected to his first of three terms as a Village Trustee, filling the remaining year of Trustee Yandow’s term when he was elected Village President at the same time. Re-elected to a full three year term in 2002, and again in 2005, Tim also serves as an alternate rep. to the CCMPO (Chittenden County Metropolitan Planning Commission). He also served as Essex Jct.’s rep to the Regional Planning Commission’s Housing Goals Task Force, looking at county housing needs for the next ten years. Tim is an active member of the Recreation Advisory Board, was an Essex CHIPS board member, a Youth Mentor, and a volunteer for several organizations including COTS (Committee on Temporary Shelter). He was United Way Coordinator at VSAC for many years. He recently served as vice-chair of the Park Street School Committee, which led to a very successful vote for preservation of this historic village asset. He volunteers annually for Greenup Day, the Village Block Party (a fixture in the dunking booth!), Memorial Day Parade, summer concert series, senior meals, and more.
For exercise, Tim likes to jog around the village in his spare time. He has lived on Pleasant Street, Mohawk Avenue, and now on South Hill Drive for the past ten years. In January 2007, Tim and Theresa Utton were married. Theresa works at the Legislative Council in the Vermont statehouse and has one son, Trevor, who is ten and now attends Albert D. Lawton Middle School.
In November 2002, Tim ran for one of the two House seats in the Vermont legislature from Essex Junction as a Democrat, finishing third in a six-person field of candidates. He was elected to the House on November 2, 2004, and was also elected to the Board of Civil Authority and Justice of the Peace. Tim is vice-chair of the local Essex Democrats. As a legislator, Tim served on the House Education Committee of NCSL, the National Conference of State Legislatures, and served on a legislative study committee on education finance simplification (which led to significant legislation, H.880, passed into law in 2006). Re-elected in 2006, Tim moved from the House Education Committee to the House Government Operations Committee. Instrumental in passing an important early education bill and serving on a study committee, Tim was honored in 2007 for for his work to help Vermont pre-school children by PRE-K-now, a national early education advocacy group.
The Government Operations Committee passed important legislation on campaign finance, town charter changes, election law, lobbyist registration, and vote reconsiderations. Passing seventy-five bills, the Burlington Free Press called the Govt. Ops. committee "the workhorse of the legislature".
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