Kate Duffy will be joining the Vermont Attorney General’s Office according to Attorney General Bill Sorrell. Duffy will be leaving her job as the Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Human Resources. Duffy served as an Assistant Attorney General for six years before she was appointed as Deputy Commissioner of the Department in 2009.
“I am very excited about Kate rejoining my team,” said Sorrell. “She is an accomplished trial attorney who has represented both state and corporate clients in complex litigation around the country for over 20 years. Kate will be a member of the Attorney General’s Office’s Civil Division and an integral part of the litigation team defending the pending challenge to Vermont’s genetically-engineered food labeling law.”
“I am delighted to be returning to the Attorney General’s Office and to have an opportunity to do such important work for Vermonters,” said Duffy. A 1991 graduate of the National Law Center at George Washington University, Duffy practiced law in New Jersey and was a partner at Taflet & Fabian in Morristown, NJ when she moved to Vermont to work for the Vermont Attorney General. She left that position to serve as Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Human Resources in 2009.
Governor Peter Shumlin appointed Duffy to be Commissioner of the Department in 2011. “My Administration was lucky to have Kate's professionalism and energy on our team for three and a half years,” said Governor Shumlin. “We will miss her, but I am thrilled she is joining the Attorney General’s Office and will be helping to defend our new law requiring labeling of food produced with genetic engineering.”
Duffy’s move to the Attorney General’s Office will occur on August 11, 2014.
Source: Vermont AG 9.7.2014