Barney Bloom

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Barney Bloom

Prior offices:

Washington County Superior Court

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Barney Bloom was an assistant judge of the superior court in Washington County, Vermont. He began serving in 2000. He was re-elected on November 2, 2010, to a five-year term beginning on February 1, 2011, and ending on January 31, 2015. He did not seek re-election in 2014 and retired in July of that year. He was facing administrative charges that he stole merchandise, but said his retirement was unrelated.

Education

Bloom earned a professional certificate in judicial development for special court trial skills from the National Judicial College.

Career

Bloom is the vice president and past-president of the Beth Jacob Synagogue in Montpelier. He also worked for 15 years at the Vermont Historical Society as an assistant librarian. He served as a justice of the peace for the city of Montpelier. Bloom is not a lawyer.

Awards and associations

• Vermont Commission on Domestic Violence

2010 election

Bloom received 51.4 percent of the vote in the primary and advanced to general election on November 2, 2010, where he won re-election to the superior court with 41.26 percent of the vote. Miriam Conlon was also elected.

Main article: Vermont judicial elections, 2010

See also

• Courts in Vermont
• Vermont Superior Courts
• Washington County, Vermont

External links

• Vermont Judiciary, "Vermont Family Courts"

Footnotes

Vermont courts

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Federal courts:

Second Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: District of Vermont • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: District of Vermont

State courts:

Vermont Supreme Court • Vermont Superior Courts • Vermont Probate Court • Vermont Judicial Bureau

State resources:

Courts in Vermont • Vermont judicial elections • Judicial selection in Vermont