The Hon. Justin P. Jiron is a judge for the Vermont Superior Court. He was appointed to the bench by Governor Phil Scott in 2021.
Jiron has held assignments in the Probate Divisions of Caledonia and Essex Counties and the Civil, Criminal, and Family Divisions in Orleans County.
Prior to his appointment, he was a chief deputy state’s attorney with the Chittenden County State’s Attorney’s Office since 2016. Jiron, who first joined the office in 2003, prosecuted cases involving homicides, robberies, assaults, and drug and property crimes. Beginning in 2006, he was tasked with handling drug sale cases, working alongside the United States Attorney’s Office in Burlington to help coordinate cases prosecuted between the offices.
Jiron began his prosecutorial tenure after working in private practice at McPhillips, Fitzgerald & Cullum in Glens Falls, New York, for three years.
He received a B.S. in political science from the University of Vermont. Jiron then served in the infantry in the United States Army before completing a J.D. at Albany Law School in 1999. He was honorably discharged in 1993.
Jiron and his wife, Dr. Haley Woodside-Jiron, a professor at the College of Education and Social Services, have two grown children. He resided in Underhill, Vermont, at the time of his appointment.