John Augustine Dooley III (born April 10, 1944) is an American lawyer and former judge who served as a justice of the

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from 1987 to 2017.

Biography

John A. Dooley of

South Burlington, Vermont South Burlington is a city in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States. Along with neighboring Burlington, it is a principal city of the Burlington metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the population was 20,292. It is home to the h ...

was born in Nashua, New Hampshire on April 10, 1944. He attended school in Nashua, and graduated from

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in 1965 with a

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degree. He received his J.D. degree from

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in 1968 and became an attorney in Vermont. Dooley's career included serving as law clerk to federal judge Bernard Joseph Leddy. He was also Deputy Director and later Director of Vermont Legal Aid, Inc. Dooley was a

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, and served as legal counsel to Governor Madeleine M. Kunin. From 1985 to 1987 Dooley was Vermont's Secretary of Administration. Dooley was appointed to succeed William C. Hill as an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court on June 12, 1987. He retired from active service on March 31, 2017. From 1988 to 1989 Dooley was president of the

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. For many years he has been involved in the Vermont- Karelia Rule of Law Project and the

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-United States Legal Foundation.

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