Suzanne K. Armor

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Suzanne offers over 25 years of environmental expertise to Vermonters, and has the experience and knowledge to navigate even the most challenging matters.

Before joining the legal profession, Suzanne was an environmental engineer, designing critical infrastructure for municipal and industrial clients and assisting her clients in navigating permitting, funding, and regulatory landscapes. 

After law school, she joined the federal government as an attorney with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. During her 16-year federal career, she led hundreds of complex and high-impact environmental enforcement cases against municipalities, industry, and individuals. She worked closely with federal, state, local, and tribal shareholders to develop, implement, and enforce environmental regulations; to ensure access to safe and clean water for communities; and to secure the cleanup of dozens of contaminated sites across the Southeastern United States. Her work at the EPA included environmental law, land-use, grants management, regulatory and compliance counseling, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, CERCLA, RCRA, federal Endangered Species Act, FOIA/Open Records issues, Tribal law, and municipal law. She also served as the EPA Region 4 Regional Tribal Coordinator, liaising between the Southeastern Region's federally-recognized Tribes and the EPA, and overseeing grants to Tribal partners.

Most recently, Suzanne was an attorney with the Manchester Center, Vermont firm of Woolmington, Campbell, Bent & Stasny, P.C., where she practiced in the areas of environmental, land use, energy, and municipal law.

• Environmental & land use law
• Advising municipalities
• Regulatory & permitting counseling

• Syracuse University (B.S., Environmental Engineering) (2000)
• University of Colorado at Denver (M.P.A.) (2004)
• Sturm College of Law University of Denver (J.D.) (2007) 

• United States v. City of Jackson, Civil Action No. 3:22-cv-00686 (S.D. Miss., Nov. 29, 2022). As the senior EPA attorney for this high-profile drinking water enforcement matter, Suzanne successfully negotiated a groundbreaking stipulated order with the City to appoint an Interim Third-Party Manager to assume operation of the City’s drinking water system after systemic collapse of system components left over 170,000 residents without access to drinking water for a two-week period. Suzanne worked closely with the Manager, City, Town, and State of Mississippi to ensure the effective management of over $300 million in drinking water revolving fund loans and over $148 million in federal grants for this critical infrastructure work.

• United States et al. v. Town of Timmonsville, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 167665 (D.S.C. Nov. 26, 2013). Suzanne successfully negotiated a Consent Decree between the EPA, State of South Carolina, the Town of Timmonsville, and the City of Florence whereby the non-liable City of Florence agreed to assume responsibility for nearby Town’s failing wastewater and drinking water systems. This involved negotiation with U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, for forgiveness of the Town's outstanding loans and advising the Town and City on local ordinance development to support the City's assumption of the Town's systems.

• Anniston PCB Site, Anniston, Alabama. As the EPA Attorney for this National Priority List-caliber site, Suzanne worked closely with the State of Alabama, the property owner, and the community to support the successful remediation of the former Monsanto Company's polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) manufacturing plant and two PCB-laden landfills. She developed institutional controls for future land use development, and drafted successful amicus curiae memoranda in support of the United States’ position that contribution under CERCLA § 113(f) is the exclusive remedy for recouping a polluter’s cleanup costs. See Solutia, Inc. v. McWane, Inc., 726 F. Supp. 2d 1316 (N.D. Ala. 2010), aff ’d, 672 F.3d 1230 (11th Cir. 2012).  

Admitted to practice before all state courts in Vermont and Georgia, in the United States District Court for the District of Vermont, and in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.