Vermont

Peter_Lenes

Peter Lenes (born April 3, 1986) is a former American ice hockey player. He last played for the EC Kitzbuhel of the Alps Hockey League.
Prior to turning professional, Lenes attended the University of Vermont where he played four seasons of NCAA Division I college hockey with the Vermont Catamounts men's ice hockey team where he scored 46 goals and 46 assists for 92 points in 148 games.
On January 11, 2012, the Trenton Titans of the ECHL traded Lenes, along with defenseman Jordon Southorn, to the Wheeling Nailers in exchange for future considerations.On July 31, 2013, Lenes returned for to attempt a second stint in Austria, signing a try-out deal as a free agent with Dornbirner EC.Lenes has since retired from playing professional hockey and started a hockey training and development company with former NHLer and University of Vermont teammate Torrey Mitchell.

Lily_Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton (born August 18, 1987) is an American writer. She was born and raised in southern Vermont. Her first book, Motorcycles I've Loved: A Memoir, published in 2015 by Riverhead, was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Her first novel, Good Morning, Midnight, was published the next year by Random House, and it has been translated into half a dozen languages, with a film adaptation as The Midnight Sky in December 2020 starring and directed by George Clooney.Brooks-Dalton earned a BA at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a MFA at Portland State University.

Jean_Ankeney

Jean Ankeney (March 29, 1922 – May 14, 2005) was an American politician, teacher, and public health nurse.
Born in Fuzhou, China, to American missionaries, Ankeney grew up in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She received her bachelor's degree from Hiram College and her master's degree from Case Western Reserve University. Ankeney was a teacher and public health nurse. In 1975, Ankeney moved to Vermont and lived in St. George, Vermont. From 1993 to 2002, Ankeney served in the Vermont State Senate and was a Democrat. Ankeney died at her home in St. George, Vermont of a rare form of lung cancer.

Thomas_M._Salmon

Thomas M. Salmon (born July 28, 1963) is an American politician who was Vermont Auditor of Accounts from 2007 to 2013. He did not run for reelection in 2012, and was succeeded by Democrat/Progressive Douglas R. Hoffer. He was elected in 2006 as a Democrat and then became a Republican in 2009.

April_Bernard

April Bernard (born 1956) is an American poet. She was born and raised in New England, and graduated from Harvard University. She has worked as a senior editor at Vanity Fair, Premiere, and Manhattan, inc. In the early 1990s, she taught at Amherst College. In Fall 2003, she was Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College. She currently teaches at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the Boston Review, AGNI, Ploughshares, Parnassus, and The New York Review of Books.

Elizabeth_M._Ready

Elizabeth Mary "Liz" Ready (pronounced "reedy") (born October 7, 1953) is a Vermont non-profit director and elected official who is most notable for her advocacy for Vermonters with lower incomes, especially the housing insecure. She served in the Vermont Senate from 1989 to 2001 on the Senate Finance, Appropriations, Agriculture and Natural Resources and Energy (including a stint as Chair). She also served as Vermont Auditor of Accounts from 2001 to 2005.

Steven_Howard_(politician)

Steven James Howard is an American politician from the state of Vermont. He represented parts of the city of Rutland in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1993 to 2011, except for three terms between 1999 and 2005. A Democrat, he represented the district of Rutland-5-3, and ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor of Vermont in 2010.