(Montpelier) –The Office of the Governor of Vermont has appointed Kate Lucier of Underhill to serve on the Vermont Commission on Women (VCW), the state’s non-partisan commission working to advance rights and opportunities for women and girls.
Kate Lucier has spent her professional career working to ensure that individuals have a chance to participate in decisions about their lives and the systems which impact them. Kate’s early career involved direct service work, as a middle school special educator, as a public defender, and as an attorney for employees involved in the workers’ compensation system and for public sector labor unions. In those roles, Kate worked to help students and clients navigate and bring their voices and experiences to bear on the complex, multi-layered systems in which they were involved. Kate’s later career has involved working as a juvenile justice specialist and as an attorney for the State of Vermont where Kate has striven to improve fairness of process for the individuals involved in and impacted by the state’s juvenile justice, child protection, and employment misconduct systems.
Serving on the Vermont Commission on Women will provide Kate with the opportunity to continue to work collaboratively to move Vermont forward in ensuring that our state’s systems are more accessible, transparent, empowering, fair and just for all Vermonters. Kate holds a bachelor’s degree in government, a master’s degree in special needs education, and a law degree. Kate hails from the Midwest and now resides in Underhill with her family, including a dog named Lovie and two cats named Mac and Cheese. When not at work, you’ll likely find Kate drinking maple-syrup-sweetened coffee on her screened porch, obsessively following current political events, or photographing Vermont’s beautiful landscapes.
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The Vermont Commission on Women (VCW) is an independent non-partisan state commission working to advance rights and opportunities for women and girls. Sixteen volunteer commissioners and representatives from organizations concerned with women's issues guide VCW's public education, coalition building, and advocacy efforts.