Tom Garrett

Treasurer, Board of Directors

Tom Garrett has practiced law in Vermont for more than 30 years, as a Chittenden County Deputy States Attorney and as a staff attorney and project director at Vermont Legal Aid. Most of his work has been on behalf of Vermont individuals and families who have low income or are disabled or elderly. Since 1996, he has been Executive Director of Legal Services Law Line of Vermont, a non-profit law firm that specializes in community education, counsel, advice, and brief service to low income Vermonters. He got his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago and his legal education at the University of Connecticut School of Law. 

Away from the world of law, Tom has a master's degree in philosophy from Hunter College, City University of New York, and is a film maker and adjunct professor of cinema studies at Burlington College. Tom lives in Burlington, Vermont with his wife, Barbara Murphy.