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New DOC commissioner on out-of-state program, decriminalization
By vtdigger.org- Elizabeth Hewitt
Published: 11/16/2015

Lisa Menard may have a new office, but the new job that came with it is unlikely to come with many surprises for the Department of Corrections veteran.

Reserved in manner, with waist-long dark hair and a firm, alto voice, Menard spent more than half a decade in the deputy commissioner’s office, sitting on the sidelines during legislative committee hearings as former commissioner Andy Pallito took the spotlight.

But few people in state government know the DOC so thoroughly as Menard. Before landing at the helm of the department last month, Menard worked at just about every tier of Vermont’s correctional system — all the way back to her start as a correctional officer at a Chittenden County prison in the mid-1980s.

Menard took the top job in October, after Pallito left to head the Department of Finance and Management in the Shumlin administration.

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