Karen Russell Carroll (born February 7, 1963) is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the Vermont Supreme Court since April 2017.
Karen Russell Carroll was born in Newport on February 7, 1963, and raised in Proctor;[1] her family moved around the state based on her father's assignments as a member of the Vermont State Police.
[2] Carroll's family has been involved in law enforcement for several generations; both her grandfather and great-grandfather were chief of police in Burlington.
[1] Carroll's experience included: deputy state’s attorney for Windham County (1988–1994);[1] Special Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Vermont (1994–2000);[1] and assistant state attorney general with responsibility for prosecutions related to the Southern Vermont Drug Task Force (1994–2000).
[1] She presided over Family, Criminal and Civil Divisions in Windham, Windsor, and Bennington Counties,[1] and was the first presiding judge of Vermont’s first DUI Treatment Court, which is in Windsor County.