Vermont Business Magazine Governor Phil Scott today announced the appointment of Karen Lueders, of Lincoln, to fill the vacant Addison-4 seat in the Vermont House of Representatives. Lueders replaces Mari Cordes, who resigned earlier this year.
“Karen has strong ties to her community, which will bring a valuable perspective to Montpelier,” said Governor Phil Scott. “With many years of public service, I believe she will be an effective legislator and represent her constituents well.”
“I am grateful to the Governor for the opportunity to represent Addison-4 in the Vermont House of Representatives,” said Lueders. “I look forward to working with my colleagues in the House to find solutions for the complex concerns that affect our communities across the state.”
Lueders currently serves on the Board of Addison Housing Works and previously served on the Board of Addison County Home Health and Hospice and Habitat for Humanity, among other Addison County nonprofits. Since March 2025, she has served on a special committee with a group of thoughtful and dedicated community members appointed by the Lincoln Selectboard to study and recommend improvements to voting in Lincoln and Lincoln’s Annual Town Meeting.
Lueders has come to know the communities of the four towns in Addison District-4 (Lincoln, Bristol, Starksboro, and Monkton) in a variety of ways: through her law practice, through volunteering at the schools, through her children’s friends and their families, and through numerous other community endeavors, including as a patron and participant in the five-town arts community.
Until it closed in March 2020 amid the COVID-19 shutdown, Lueders ran the WalkOver Gallery and Concert Room in Bristol for 17 years alongside her law office.
Cordes, a Democrat also from Lincoln, announced in June she was moving to Nova Scotia.
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