Margolis Healy & Associates

Thomas R. Tremblay
Associate

Throughout his distinguished thirty year policing career Tom Tremblay has been a passionate leader for the prevention of domestic and sexual violence.  He is a national trainer and advisor promoting improved victim services; multi-disciplinary response and investigations; greater offender accountability; and the importance of leadership, policy and training to help end violence against women crimes.

Tom Tremblay is a faculty member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police National Law Enforcement Leadership Institute on Violence Against Women and is an associate for Margolis Healy & Associates.  In 2008 Tom was appointed by Vermont Governor James Douglas to serve a three year term as Public Safety Commissioner for the State of Vermont.  Tom was Chief of Police for five years in the city of Burlington, Vermont prior to his appointment as Commissioner. 

Tom served for over twenty-four years in the Burlington Police Department.  In 1986 he was selected as the first director of the department’s Sexual Assault Investigation Unit.  Tom led the effort to develop the multi-disciplinary team and earned the reputation as a collaborative, compassionate and relentless investigator.  The success of the Burlington unit helped pave the way for a county-wide unit which has been recognized nationally and is now a statewide model for the response to crimes of sexual violence and child sexual abuse.  As Commissioner of Public Safety for Vermont, Tom helped lead the effort to improve Vermont’s response to sexual violence which included the creation of Special Investigation Units for every region of the state. 

Tom holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice.  He is a graduate of the 183rd Session of the FBI National Academy, the FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development Seminar, the Police Executive Research Forum – Senior Management Institute for Police, and the National Law Enforcement Leadership Institute on Violence Against Women.