ABOUT TIM JERMAN
A resident of Essex Junction for 28 years and Vermont for 38, Tim grew up in Stamford, Connecticut. He graduated from Stamford High (1966), the University of Connecticut (1970, BA Political Science), and Northeastern University (1975-M.ed Education). He worked at the Vermont Student Assistance Corporation for 30 years, as an Outreach Counselor, Director of Publications, Director of Human Resources, and Director of Development. Tim has two grown daughters, Kate and Jenna, who attended Summit, Feming, ADL, and Essex High School before going on to complete college. While they were growing up, Tim coached soccer and basketball through the youth recreation leagues.
In 2001, he was elected to his first of three terms as a Village Trustee, filling the remaining year of Trustee Yandow’s term when he was elected Village President at the same time. Re-elected to a full three year term in 2002, and again in 2005, Tim also served as an alternate rep. to the CCMPO (Chittenden County Metropolitan Planning Commission). He also served as Essex Jct.’s rep to the Regional Planning Commission’s Housing Goals Task Force, looking at county housing needs for the next ten years. Tim was an active member of the Recreation Advisory Board, was an Essex CHIPS board member, a Youth Mentor, and a volunteer for several organizations including COTS (Committee on Temporary Shelter). He was United Way Coordinator at VSAC for many years. He served as vice-chair of the Park Street School Committee, which led to a very successful vote for preservation of this historic village asset. He volunteers annually for Greenup Day, the Village Block Party (a fixture in the dunking booth!), Memorial Day Parade, summer concert series, senior meals, and more. In 2010, Tim was elected to a four-year term on the Vermont State Colleges Board of Trustees by the full legislature.
Hobbies include basketball, golf, skiing, reading, and jogging around the village. Tim has lived on Pleasant Street, Mohawk Avenue, South Hill Drive, and now lives on Sycamore Lane in Fairview Farm. Tim and Theresa were married in January 2007; Theresa works at the Joint fiscal Office in the legislature and has one son, Trevor, who is a student at Albert D. Lawton Middle School.
In November 2002, Tim ran for one of the two House seats in the Vermont legislature from Essex Junction as a Democrat, finishing third in a six-person field of candidates. He was elected to the House on November 2, 2004, and was also elected to the Board of Civil Authority and Justice of the Peace. As a legislator, Tim served on the House Education Committee of NCSL, the National Conference of State Legislatures, and served on a legislative study committee on education finance simplification (which led to significant legislation, H.880, passed into law in 2006). Re-elected in 2006, Tim moved from the House Education Committee to the House Government Operations Committee. Instrumental in passing an important early education bill and serving on a study committee, Tim was honored in 2007 for for his work to help Vermont pre-school children by PRE-K-now, a national early education advocacy group.
The Government Operations Committee passed important legislation on campaign finance, town charter changes, election law, lobbyist registration, and vote reconsiderations. Passing seventy-five bills, the Burlington Free Press called the Govt. Ops. committee "the workhorse of the legislature".
In 2008, Tim was re-elected by the widest margin in a contested House race in the entire state. He was asked to serve on the House Natural Resources and Energy Committee and has participated in the development of important legislation regarding Vermont's energy future, including two renewable energy bills and three Vermont Yankee Nuclear decommissioning bills.
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