2025-2026 Session
Change SessionSenator Alison Clarkson
- District
- Windsor District
- Party
- Democrat
- Seat Number
- 15
- AClarkson@leg.state.vt.us
- Phone
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- Home Address
- 18 Golf Ave., Woodstock, VT 05091
- Home Phone
- (802) 457-4627
- Committees
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- Senate Committee on Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs, Chair
- Senate Committee on Government Operations
- Senate Sexual Harassment Prevention Panel, Chair
- Joint Legislative Management Committee
- Judicial Rules Committee, Vice Chair
- Basic Needs Budget Technical Advisory Committee
- Commission on International Trade & State Sovereignty, ex officio
- Department of Liquor and Lottery Task Force
- Legislative Advisory Committee on the State House
- Regional Economic Development Grant Advisory Committee
- Senate Workgroup on Lessons Learned
- Small Business Solutions Task Force
- Special Oversight Committee on Workforce Expansion and Development
- State Workforce Development Board
- State Housing and Residential Services Planning Committee
- Biography
- ALISON HUDNUT CLARKSON has served in the Vermont Legislature since 2005. She started in the House representing the towns of Plymouth, Reading and Woodstock. And, for the past nine years she has been a member of the Vermont Senate, elected to be one of the three Senators representing the Windsor County District. Having served for four years as the Senate Majority Leader, Alison is currently chairing the Senate Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs Committee. In addition she serves on Senate Government Operations Committee, as a member of the Joint Legislative Management Committee, as chair of the Senate Sexual Harassment Panel, and is a member of the Legislative Climate Solutions Caucus and the Women’s Caucus. Alison also serves on the State Workforce Development Board. During the comprehensive review of Vermont’s Use Value Appraisal Program (Current Use), she served as the chair of the Legislature’s UVA Task Force.
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. She is a founder of the New York Theatre Workshop, one of New York’s finest non-profit theater companies, and worked with the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center. In Vermont, Alison currently serves on the board of directors of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and the Friends of the Statehouse. She is a former board member of the Vermont Arts Council and served as a board member and chair of Woodstock’s Pentangle Council on the Arts.
Alison has been active in environmental protection, education, and civic organizations. She served as the chair of the Billings Park Commission for many years, and is a former board member of the Vermont Natural Resources Council, Sustainable Woodstock, the Adirondack Council, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the Park School of Buffalo. In 2008 Alison was honoured to receive the ‘Outstanding Vermont Legislator Award’ from Vermont Natural Resources Council and the Vermont Farm Bureau’s ‘Stephanie Bourdeau Women in Agriculture Leadership Award’ and in 2002 she was the Woodstock Rotary’s “Citizen of the Year”.
She is married to Oliver Goodenough, professor at the Vermont Law School, and is the mother of two sons, Ward and William.
Bills and Resolutions Sponsored by Senator Clarkson
Regular Session 2025-2026
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Roll Call Votes by Senator Clarkson
Regular Session 2025-2026
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