Bill Colvin, assistant director and coordinator of community and economic development programs at the Bennington County Regional Commission, will be elevated to executive director of the organization in the coming weeks. He will succeed Jim Sullivan, who is retiring after 30-plus years at the BCRC.

Front Porch Forum, a leader in helping Vermont neighbors connect and build community via online local forums, has named Jason Wiseberg as chief revenue officer. Wiseberg has more than 28 years of B2B and B2C sales and marketing experience.

He has served as vice president of sales and marketing at Value Line, a financial services firm in New York City, and as regional sales manager at Bloomberg, also in New York City.

Vermont Law and Graduate School has hired Robert Sommo as its new vice president for enrollment and marketing. Sommo joins the law school from the Silver School of Social Work at New York University, where he helped diversify and grow the student body and assisted in building a welcoming and embracing environment for prospects, students and employees.

Pat Parenteau, emeritus professor at Vermont Law and Graduate School, recently received the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy and Resources.

A professor at Vermont Law since 1993, Parenteau served as director of the Environmental Law Center, founded the school’s Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic and served as senior counsel at the Environmental Advocacy Clinic. In May 2022, he received an honorary degree from the school.