Marilyn Skoglund
Marilyn Skoglund was an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court from 1997 to 2019. She was appointed to the court in 1997, officially joining on August 27, 1997.[1] Skoglund retired on September 1, 2019.[2]
Education
Justice Skoglund graduated from Southern Illinois University with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts in 1971. In lieu of attending law school, she completed a law-office clerkship at the Office of the Attorney General, where she served as assistant attorney general (1981-1989), chief of the Civil Law Division (1989-1993), and chief of the Public Protection Division (1993-1994).[1]
Career
Justice Skoglund was appointed to the District Court in 1994. She became the second woman to serve as an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court on August 27, 1997. Shortly after taking office, Justice Skoglund started the Art in the Supreme Court program. She served on the board of the Vermont Bar Foundation until 2006.[1]
Political ideology
In October 2012, political science professors Adam Bonica and Michael Woodruff of Stanford University attempted to determine the partisan ideology of state supreme court justices. They created a scoring system in which a score above 0 indicated a more conservative-leaning ideology, while scores below 0 were more liberal.
Skoglund received a campaign finance score of -1.55, indicating a liberal ideological leaning. This was more liberal than the average score of -0.60 that justices received in Vermont.
The study was based on data from campaign contributions by the judges themselves, the partisan leaning of those who contributed to the judges' campaigns, or, in the absence of elections, the ideology of the appointing body (governor or legislature). This study was not a definitive label of a justice, but an academic summary of various relevant factors.[3]
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Footnotes
Federal courts:
Second Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: District of Vermont • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: District of Vermont
State courts:
Vermont Supreme Court • Vermont Superior Courts • Vermont Probate Court • Vermont Judicial Bureau
State resources:
Courts in Vermont • Vermont judicial elections • Judicial selection in Vermont