Biography

Alison Clarkson currently serves as the Majority Leader of the Vermont State Senate. After serving in the Vermont House for 12 years representing Plymouth, Reading and Woodstock, she was elected in 2016 to serve as a State Senator for Windsor County District.

Alison is the Vice-Chair of Senate Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs, and also serves on the Senate Government Operations Committee. In addition, Alison is a member of the Legislative Climate Solutions Caucus and the Women’s Caucus, and she serves on the State Workforce Development Board.

Before moving to Vermont, Alison was a theater producer in New York for 15 years – where she produced plays On, Off and Off-Off Broadway. In Vermont, Alison has served on numerous boards: Pentangle Council on the Arts, the Vermont Arts Council, Vermont Natural Resources Council, the Billings Park Commission and Sustainable Woodstock. She currently serves on the Vermont Symphony Orchestra board. In 2002, she was the Woodstock Rotary’s “Citizen of the Year.”

Alison is married to Oliver Goodenough, a professor at the Vermont Law School, and they are the proud parents of two sons, Ward and William.