Meet the PDG Governor 2002-2003
Ross & Lynn Forgione
A Charter Member of the Rotary Club of Archerfield, and Paul Harris Fellow, Ross has served his Club in almost every executive position including Secretary, Sergeant, and Directorships and twice as President.
At District level, his roles have included District Trainer, District Team Leader for the Club Service Training Program at District Assembly, Honorary Lawyer and Trustee of the District Project Rotary Trust, Chairman of District Public Relations Committee and two terms as Assistant Governor. He is, or has been, a board member, honorary lawyer or advisor to many other educational, sporting, legal, social and cultural organisations.
Born in Calabria, Italy, Ross migrated, at the age of four with his parents and brother John to Sydney, Australia. He attended state primary school and Liverpool Boys High School, but left at the age of fourteen. He undertook various jobs, including management of the family’s mixed business. He later resumed studies at evening college, matriculated, and was awarded a scholarship to Teachers College, which he attended before studying law.
He undertook his legal studies and completed his Articles of Clerkship in Sydney and Brisbane. A Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, he has also been awarded the post graduate degrees of Master of Arts in Applied Ethics from Griffith University and Master of Laws [Advanced] from the University of Queensland.
Ross has been admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor in the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory, Solicitor and Attorney in the Supreme Courts of Queensland and New South Wales and the High Court of Australia. He has also been admitted as Notary Public for the State of Queensland. Since 1977 he has been principal of his own legal firm and is practicing in most areas of law at Algester and Sunnybank Hills, Queensland as Forgione Lawyers and Notaries.
He is also a Senior Counsellor with the Queensland Law Society, which involves the provision of confidential advice to other lawyers on all ethical and professional matters. He was also Deputy Chairman of the Queensland Law Society Mentoring Steering Committee that formulated a scheme to assist young legal practitioners in their professional development, by the use of mentors. He has lectured in Commercial Law and delivered papers on the globalisation of legal services at international law conferences.
Ross regards his opportunity to be Governor of our District during 2002/2003, when the Rotary International Convention is to be held in Brisbane, as a special privilege and honour that shall provide him with even greater opportunities to serve Rotarians in our great District and Rotary International.
Lynn and Ross have four children, Vincent, John, Joseph and Melina. Ross enjoys music, traveling, reading, films and television, walking and mowing grass (on a ride-on mower, of course!).
PDG Ross Forgione - Ballina Conference 2003