Addison County States Attorney Eva Vekos waits at the denfendant’s table before pleading no contest to a DUI charge in Chittenden County Superior criminal court Burlington on Tuesday, December 16, 2025. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger An attorney who handles discipline for lawyers in Vermont i s seeking the “immediate suspension” of Addison County State’s Attorney Eva Vekos’ law license. The 23-page filing from Jon Alexander, disciplinary counsel for the Vermont Professional Responsibility Board, cites Vekos’ conviction for drunken driving late last year after police said she drove to a suspicious death scene intoxicated in January 2024.  The Vermont Supreme Court, which oversees the discipline of all judicial officers and attorneys, is set to take up the matter at a hearing on March 19. The filing submitted earlier this month to the Vermont Supreme Court also points to interactions Vekos had with police on the night of her arrest as well as after the incident as reasons for the suspension request. “State’s Attorney Vekos committed her crime during the course of her law practice and performance of her public duties,” Alexander wrote in the filing.  “In an effort to avoid prosecution for her DUI,” Alexander added, “she also committed additional and related professional misconduct of abusing her public office, attempting to improperly influence police officers and interfering with the administration of justice.” Alexander wrote in his filing he is seeking the immediate suspension of Vekos’ law license “during the pendency of forthcoming disciplinary proceedings before a Hearing Panel of the Professional Responsibility Board.” Neither Vekos nor her attorney could immediately be reached Wednesday for comment.   Vekos pleaded no contest in December to a charge of drunken driving and received a six-month deferred sentence. A deferred sentence allows the conviction to be cleared from her record provided she does not commit any violations during that six-month period. The suspension request comes as Vekos, a Democrat, has faced calls to resign from the leaders of the Vermont Democratic and Progressive parties as well as Republican Gov. Phil Scott. Those calls for Vekos’ resignation came after a VTDigger story in December about ethics complaints brought against Vekos. The complaints from crime victims stemmed from how they said they were treated by her. Vekos has challenged the allegations and has maintained that she has no plans to step down. Also, last month, Vermont Public reported on an internal investigation conducted by a law firm hired by the Vermont Department of State’s Attorneys and Sheriffs that found Vekos had shown “significant failures” related to ethical and legal responsibilities.  Shortly after Vekos’ arrest in 2024, her law license was temporarily suspended, with Alexander claiming that Vekos’ failed to cooperate with his investigation into her paid medical leave that followed the drunken driving charge. The Vermont Supreme Court lifted Vekos’ suspension after roughly three weeks, ruling that she had since come into compliance with the investigation. Alexander’s filing with the Vermont Supreme Court earlier this month seeking the immediate suspension of Vekos’ law license centers primarily on the drunken driving case. It does not include any information regarding any allegations of misconduct included in the report conducted by the law firm hired by the state Department of State’s Attorneys and Sheriffs. The timing regarding the filing of the petition by Alexander earlier this month is not clear. Many of the allegations raised in it relate to Vekos’ DUI arrest more than two years ago and her eventual conviction about three months ago. Alexander could not be reached for comment Wednesday. Vekos was arrested on the night of Jan. 25, 2024, on the drunken driving charge after she drove to the scene of a suspicious death investigation in Bridport and troopers claimed she was intoxicated.  Vekos refused to do field sobriety tests or take a breath test at the state police barracks in New Haven where she was taken for processing, according to charging documents. She told police she had only one gin and tonic earlier in the evening of her drunken driving arrest before being called to the suspicious death scene, according to court records. Vekos, in the days after her arrest, took part in an email exchange with law enforcement officials in Addison County, in which she said she no longer felt safe around police and mocked their intelligence and grammar abilities. Alexander wrote in his filing to the Vermont Supreme Court seeking Vekos’ immediate suspension that drunken driving was a “serious crime” that included aggravated factors in the case. Vekos, Alexander wrote, tried to “persuade” a trooper to “shirk his duty” to investigate her for drunken driving and let her leave the scene. Before she was taken to the barracks, Vekos could be heard on video footage from the scene telling the trooper, “Are you serious Ryan? Can’t you just have a friend come and get me,” according to court documents.   Also, in asking the trooper if he was “serious,” Alexander wrote of Vekos, “she was not suggesting that suspecting her of DUI was implausible or spurious, but was instead implying that it was laughable or outrageous for a police officer to investigate the State’s Attorney for DUI, a tacit but unmistakable demand for special treatment on account of her law enforcement status.” Vekos is up for re-election in November.  This story will be updated. Read the story on VTDigger here: Lawyer for state panel seeks ‘immediate’ suspension of embattled Addison County prosecutor. ...read more read less