46 Facts About Vincent Illuzzi

At 27, Vincent Illuzzi was the youngest person ever elected to the Vermont Senate, a record he held until 2024.

Vincent Illuzzi did not run for reelection in 2012, and was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for Vermont Auditor of Accounts.

Vincent Illuzzi currently serves as the State's Attorney for Essex County, although a resident of neighboring Orleans Co.

Vincent Illuzzi was born in Montpelier, Vermont, on September 17,1953.

Vincent Illuzzi supported the restoration of the Old Labor Hall and the Vermont Granite Museum in Barre.

Vincent Illuzzi was a correspondent for the Burlington Free Press from 1973 through 1978, covering mostly Barre-Montpelier local news.

Vincent Illuzzi was first elected to the Senate in 1980 and was re-elected every two years through 2010.

Dean said if you got Vincent Illuzzi's answering machine, you were prompted to push one if you want projects for the Northeast Kingdom and two if you want projects for Barre.

Vincent Illuzzi served as Chair of the Senate Committee on Economic Development, General and Military Affairs from 2005.

Vincent Illuzzi, whose brother is a dentist, spoke in favor of an amendment in favor of a sales tax exemption for the toothbrushes dentists hand out to patients.

Vincent Illuzzi argued that dentists see the toothbrushes and floss they hand out as gifts that help send a message about proper oral hygiene.

In that 2012 article, Vincent Illuzzi said by way of summary:.

Vincent Illuzzi was one of those people who really did bridge the gaps.

Seven Days conducted an admittedly unscientific survey in 2010 in which Vince Vincent Illuzzi received 10 votes as the "Best Dealmaker" in the Legislature.

Vincent Illuzzi used the legislative appropriation process to champion Vermont values is his inclusion of the following provision in a 1992 Capital Construction Bill:.

Vincent Illuzzi was unable to attend on the day of the dedication of the cemetery, as chair of the Senate Institutions Committee, he designated a member of the committee, Senator Julius Canns of St Johnsbury, Caledonia County, to appear and speak in his place.

Vincent Illuzzi led the effort to secure the first state appropriation to save from likely demolition the Socialist Labor Party Hall, known as the Old Labor Hall, at 46 Granite Street in Barre.

Vincent Illuzzi floated a proposal to attempt to break the logjam.

Washington County Senators Bill Doyle, Matt Krauss and other Washington County legislators approached Vincent Illuzzi to help Barre residents secure state funding to preserve the building before it collapsed.

Vincent Illuzzi chaired the Senate Institutions Committee while Wood chaired the House Institutions Committee.

Vincent Illuzzi established a relationship with Chief Homer St Francis shortly after a "fish-in" in Franklin County which resulted in charges of fishing without a license against a group of the Missisquoi Abenaki Tribe, a subpart of the Western Abenaki Tribe.

Vincent Illuzzi was chair of Senate Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs, statutory changes were made to the Governor's Commission on Native American Affairs, including that commission members receive a per diem stipend.

Vincent Illuzzi became law recognizing the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation and the Elnu Abenaki Tribe as state-recognized tribes by the state of Vermont.

Vincent Illuzzi worked with the Abenaki for years and his efforts are still seeing results years later.

Vincent Illuzzi, proposed a study committee to address criticism of the Vermont State Police response to the missing hiker report.

Vincent Illuzzi was instrumental in using the March 2012 meeting to honor former State Senator Robert Gannett in what would turn out to be his last public appearance.

In 1992, Vincent Illuzzi authored what became a Joint Resolution ordering that the new Addison County courthouse in Middlebury, Vermont be named the Judge Frank Mahady Courthouse.

Vincent Illuzzi led the effort to name the courthouse in Chittenden County after Judge Edward Costello, who served as chief trial judge from 1967 to 1980.

Vincent Illuzzi holds the office of Essex County State's Attorney, to which he was first elected in 1998.

Vincent Illuzzi has uniquely been endorsed by and accepted the nomination of all parties to serve in this office.

Vincent Illuzzi served on the Governor's Committee on Children and Youth and the Governor's Commission on the Administration of Justice.

In 2007, Vincent Illuzzi was mentioned by then State Senator Peter Shumlin as a potential independent candidate for governor.

In 2012, Vincent Illuzzi chose to run for State Auditor, as Republican incumbent Tom Salmon was retiring.

Vincent Illuzzi had some endorsements from labor unions, and had hoped that would make voters not see him as a typical Republican.

In 1993, Vincent Illuzzi received a six-month suspension of his law license for filing three complaints to the Judicial Conduct Board against Vermont Judge David Suntag.

Vincent Illuzzi was not involved in those cases as an attorney.

The Judicial Conduct Board of the Vermont Supreme Court dismissed the complaints against Suntag and filed a complaint against Vincent Illuzzi for filing them.

Since Vincent Illuzzi was a lawyer, the Supreme Court had jurisdiction over his law license.

The Professional Conduct Board, which is appointed by the Supreme Court, investigated the Court's complaint and recommended Vincent Illuzzi be disbarred for filing the complaint in his capacity as a state senator against Suntag.

Vincent Illuzzi stipulated to an 18-month suspension with the expectation that his stipulations would mitigate the Supreme Court's complaint, but the Professional Conduct Board recommended disbarment.

Vincent Illuzzi appealed the Board's recommendation to the Vermont Supreme Court and he asked that Justices Gibson, Dooley, Johnson and Morse recuse themselves because they filed the complaint and would be sitting in judgment of the resolution of the complaint, and other reasons.

In ratifying the suspension, the Supreme Court noted that Vincent Illuzzi had been guilty of five prior disciplinary offenses.

Three days later, the state's largest newspaper, The Burlington Free Press, editorialized that Vincent Illuzzi was being unfairly treated by the Supreme Court.

Vincent Illuzzi was profiled in a Boston Globe article by Jon Margolis shortly after he was reinstated to practice.

Vincent Illuzzi is a member of the Assembly of Overseers of Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, and serves on the National Advisory Board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation.

Vincent Illuzzi questioned the State Departmemt of Corrections decision to release on furlough an habitual offender, Harley Breer, to live in a remote community with little police coverage.