Doug Hoffer

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Doug Hoffer is a policy analyst from Burlington, Vermont who serves as Vermont State Auditor. He took office on January 10, 2013.

Education

Douglas R. Hoffer was born in New Rochelle, New York on September 3, 1951 and raised in Norwalk, Connecticut.[1] He earned a B.A. in Political Science from Williams College and a J.D. from the University at Buffalo Law School (Magna Cum Laude).[2]

Career

From 1988 until 1993, he was employed by the City of Burlington as a policy analyst in the Community & Economic Development Office (CEDO).[3]

Hoffer was a self-employed policy analyst from 1993 until taking office as State Auditor. His clients included the Vermont State Auditor, Peace & Justice Center (for whom he wrote all ten phases of The Job Gap Study), Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund, Vermont State Treasurer, Vermont State Employees Association, Yellow Wood Associates, City of Burlington, Burlington Electric Department, and the Public Assets Institute.[4]

Elected office

Hoffer ran for State Auditor in 2010 as the Democratic candidate, with an endorsement from the Vermont Progressive Party, and lost to Republican incumbent Tom Salmon.[5]

In 2012, running as the nominee of the Democrats and Progressives, he defeated Republican State Senator Vincent Illuzzi and Liberty Union Party nominee Jerry Levy. (Salmon did not run for re-election.)[6]

Personal life

He is unmarried, and has no children.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Vermont State Auditor, Biography, Doug Hoffer, accessed April 2, 2013
  2. ↑ Vermont Secretary of State, 2012 Election results
  3. ↑ Ken Picard, Seven Days, Which Watchdog: The Vermont Auditor’s Race May be the Weirdest One Yet, August 4, 2010
  4. ↑ Peace and Justice Center, Job Gap Study, 2010
  5. ↑ Vermont Secretary of State, 2010 General lection results, 2010
  6. ↑ Vermont Secretary of State, [http://vermont-elections.org/elections1/2012ElectionResults/2012GeneralElectionResults/2012GEStatewideCanvass.pdf, 2012 General Election Results], 2012
  7. ↑ Vermont Public Radio, State Auditor Candidates Differ On Approach To Office, October 17, 2012
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