Harold Edward Eaton Jr. (nicknamed "Duke") was born in
Windsor, Vermont, on August 25, 1955. He attended elementary and junior high school in
Woodstock and graduated from
Woodstock Union High School in 1973. Eaton graduated from the
University of Vermont in 1977 with a
Bachelor of Science degree in education. He is a 1980 graduate of
Vermont Law School. From 1980 to 1982, Eaton was a deputy
state's attorney for
Chittenden County, and he was chief deputy state's attorney from 1982 to 1983. He practiced law in
Rutland from 1983 to 1991. Eaton was a partner in Eaton & Hayes of Woodstock from 1991 to 2004. Eaton was appointed a judge of the
Vermont Superior Court by Governor
Jim Douglas on April 16, 2004. On October 27, 2014, Governor
Peter Shumlin swore Eaton in as an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court. Eaton replaced
Geoffrey W. Crawford, who was appointed judge of the
United States District Court for the District of Vermont. ==References==