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Bill Rowell  - Franklin County Vermont - We need effective legislative leadership with a vision for Vermont, leadership capable of recognizing our needs, bringing the system to focus on today's challenges and delivering responsible timely solutions.

My family has participated in agriculture in this country since 1637 and here in Vermont since the late 1700's. I am a descendant of original Vermont settlers who farmed in Orleans County and Fairfield. I was raised on a dairy farm in Albany, Vermont and served as an Air traffic controller in the United States Navy during the Vietnam era. Honorably discharged, I enrolled at Johnson State College majoring in History and Political Science. I attended graduate school at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia to study Urban and Environmental Planning.

Returning to Vermont, partnered with my brother and father, we began constructing farm and energy projects that today include a dairy farm and two renewable energy ventures. Recently our farm, Green Mountain Dairy, was awarded the prestigious title of Vermont Dairy Farm of the year for 2008. Green Mountain Forest Products has supplied woodchips to electric generating facilities for the past 30 years. The most recent project is a methane fueled power plant that supplies green energy to the power grid.

Family:

- Married for 30 years, wife Nancy is a Systems Developer for the Vermont Department of Health, voluntarily maintains the St. Albans

            Free Library website, is a freelance artist and genealogist.

- One daughter, son in law and grandson.