Middlebury College President Laurie Patton has announced she will be leaving the school in January to become president of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, effective July 2025. Patton took office on July 1, 2015, and has served as Middlebury's 17th president.
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Vermont Mutual Insurance Group has promoted Vice President of Finance and Treasurer Brody N. Gilbert to senior vice president of finance and operations, and treasurer.
Multimedia artist Lydia Kern has been named winner of the 2024 Diane Gabriel Visual Artist Award by Burlington City Arts. Kern is the fourth recipient of this award, which carries a cash prize of $5,000 plus a $1,000 credit to BCA Studios.
Stephanie Higgins, former real estate broker with Cascade Sotheby’s International Realty of Central Oregon, has joined Donahue & Associates in Burlington as a commercial real estate agent providing leasing and sales for the Greater Chittenden area.
Mehran Assadi, chairman, CEO and president of National Life Group, was presented in April with the 2024 Financial Executive Award for Outstanding Public Service by D CEO, a monthly business magazine serving the Dallas-Fort Worth region.
Nancy Morlino, a self-employed marketing consultant, and Jade Mead, a peer support specialist at Counseling Services of Addison County, have been elected chair and vice chair, respectively, of the board of directors at Community Health. Both will serve for a four-year term.
Fred Schaffner, former vice president of finance at Spectrum Healthcare Group in Prescott, Arizona, has joined North Country Hospital in Newport as chief financial officer. Schaffner has 30 years' experience in financial management in nonprofit, behavioral health care and acute care.
Ethan Tapper, Chittenden County forester at the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation, has announced he will step down May 31 to publicize the publication of his first book and start a consulting forestry company.
Marina Dosch, former project management specialist at The Davey Tree Expert Co., has joined the Vermont Department of Liquor and Lottery as marketing manager. In her new role, Dosch will support the Vermont Lottery and 802Spirits businesses.
VNA & Hospice of the Southwest Region, one of the state’s largest providers of skilled home health and hospice services, has recognized social worker Jennifer Boland and Information Technology Specialist Joseph Durfee as the agency's Clinical and Nonclinical Employees of the Quarter, respectively.
Matt Harrington, executive director of the Southwestern Vermont Chamber of Commerce, has been elected as incoming chair of the Vermont Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives, a nonprofit organization representing 30 chambers across the state.
Two employees of GlobalFoundries, Senior Director of Central Facilities Jennifer Robbins and Senior Integration Engineer Katelyn Harrison, were honored April 18 in Washington, D.C., by the Manufacturing Institute, the workforce development and education affiliate of the National Association of Manufacturers.