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Brian Burgess

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Brian Burgess

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Prior offices
Vermont Supreme Court

Education

Bachelor's

College of the Holy Cross, 1973

Law

Villanova University, 1976


Brian L. Burgess was an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court. He was appointed to the court in 2005 and retired on August 1, 2013.[1][2]

Education

Justice Burgess received his B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1973 and his J.D. from the Villanova University School of Law in 1976.[3]

Career

  • 2005-2013: Justice, Vermont Supreme Court
  • 2004-2005: Vermont Administrative Trial Judge
  • 1992-2004: Judge, Trial court
  • 1985-1992: Deputy attorney general
  • 1983-1985: Commissioner, Department of Labor and Industry
  • 1981-1983: Assistant attorney general, director, Medicaid Fraud Control Unit
  • 1978-1981: Assistant attorney general
  • 1978: Staff attorney, Vermont’s Department of Social Welfare
  • 1976-1977: Attorney in private practice[1]

Awards and associations

  • Liaison and prior member, Vermont Supreme Court’s Criminal Rules Advisory Committee
  • Chair, Vermont Sentencing Commission
  • Member, Judicial Conduct Board

Political ideology

See also: Political ideology of State Supreme Court Justices

In October 2012, political science professors Adam Bonica and Michael Woodruff of Stanford University attempted to determine the partisan ideology of state supreme court justices. They created a scoring system in which a score above 0 indicated a more conservative-leaning ideology, while scores below 0 were more liberal.

Burgess received a campaign finance score of 0.76, indicating a conservative ideological leaning. This was more conservative than the average score of -0.60 that justices received in Vermont.

The study was based on data from campaign contributions by the judges themselves, the partisan leaning of those who contributed to the judges' campaigns, or, in the absence of elections, the ideology of the appointing body (governor or legislature). This study was not a definitive label of a justice, but an academic summary of various relevant factors.[4]

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