Head of AG’s criminal division appointed to bench

Assistant Attorney General John Treadwell.Pool file photo by Stefan Hard/The Times ArgusJohn Treadwell will leave his job as chief of the Vermont attorney general’s criminal division to become a Vermont Superior Court judge.
The appointment was one of two Gov. Phil Scott made Friday.The judiciary will decide Treadwell’s starting date and the area of Vermont where he will serve for a one- to two-year period. He is filling an opening left when Scott elevated Judge Karen Russell Carroll