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Thomas Chittenden (Vermont state senator)

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American politician from Vermont
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Thomas Ira Chittenden
Chittenden in 2021
Member of the Vermont Senate
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 6, 2021Serving with Kesha Ram Hinsdale and Ginny Lyons
Preceded byTim Ashe
Debbie Ingram
ConstituencyChittenden (2021–2023)
Chittenden Southeast (2023–Present)
Personal details
Born (1977-10-08) October 8, 1977 (age 47)
South Burlington, Vermont, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseKimberly Chittenden
Children3
WebsiteOfficial website

Thomas Ira Chittenden (born October 8, 1977) is an American politician from Vermont and a member of the Vermont Democratic Party. He was elected as a Vermont State Senator on November 3, 2020 as one of the six senators representing Chittenden County. He is a South Burlington City Councilor (2015 to present) serving in his third term. He has also been twice elected by the faculty of the University of Vermont to serve as their Faculty Senate President (2019–2020). He also served as the Chair and Vice Chair of Green Mountain Transit Authority (2015–2020).

His Vermont family lineage traces nine generations back to Bethuel Chittenden, the brother of Vermont's first governor Thomas Chittenden and he lives in the Chittenden family home in South Burlington with Chittenden land deeds tracing to 1836.

He was the 2019 UVM Grossman School of Business Faculty Member of the Year and in 2017 was awarded the UVM Presidents Distinguished Lecturer Award. He is the father of three children attending public school and married to Kimberly Chittenden who teaches in the Colchester School District.

References

  1. "Republican wins Rutland County seat; new senators in Chittenden County". November 4, 2020.
  2. "Senator Thomas Chittenden". legislature.vermont.gov. Retrieved January 10, 2021.
  3. "City Council".
  4. "History of the UVM Faculty Senate".
  5. "Dean's Staff & Faculty Awards".
  6. "Thomas Chittenden, MBA – 2017 President's Distinguished Lecturer Award".
Members of the Vermont Senate
President of the Senate
David Zuckerman (P/D)
President pro tempore
Philip Baruth (D/P)
Majority Leader
Alison Clarkson (D)
Minority Leader
Randy Brock (R)
Progressive Leader
Tanya Vyhovsky (P/D)
Majority coalition (23)
Democratic (22)
Progressive (1)
Minority coalition (7)
Republican (7)
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