Hal Cohen, executive director of Vermont Adult Learning since June 2018, has announced his intention to retire at the end of December. While the organization's board of directors conducts a search for Cohen's successor, Associate Director David Justice and Program Director Joseph Przyperhart will serve as interim executive co-directors.

Michaela Merrill, interim superintendent of the Department of Corrections' Southern State Correctional Facility, has officially assumed the role of SSCF superintendent. She succeeds Mike Lyon, who retired in August.

Merrill joined the department in 2003 as a corrections officer. She has since held the role of corrections officer II, interim assistant superintendent at Northern State Correctional Facility, interim superintendent at Marble Valley Regional Correctional Facility and assistant superintendent at SSCF.