Eileen Blackwood received her A.B. degree from Dartmouth College with a special major in Women and Education. She received her J.D. degree with honors from Cornell Law School where she was the Managing Editor of the Cornell Law Review. She served as Law Clerk to the Hon. Franklin S. Billings, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, and is a Past President of the Vermont Bar Association. She is on several community Boards of Directors and was appointed by the Vermont Supreme Court as Chair of the Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee. Ms. Blackwood was formerly a partner at Kohn Rath, where she focused her practice in the fields of education law, employment law, nonprofits, and estate planning, and served as a mediator and Early Neutral Evaluator for a wide variety of disputes and as a hearing officer for VOSHA.  She left Kohn Rath in 2012 to become City Attorney for the City of Burlington (Vermont’s largest city).  She recently retired from that position and became Of Counsel to Kohn Rath, where she currently takes on matters on a very limited basis.