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Iain James Kerr Ross has been a Justice of the Federal Court of Australia since 1 March 2012 and is the current President of the Australian Fair Work Commission (formerly Fair Work Australia).
Ross was previously an assistant secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, serving under Bill Kelty. In 1994 he was appointed as a Vice President of the former Australian Industrial Relations Commission, a role in which he served until 2006. In 2009, he was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria (VCAT), as well as the president of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal from 1 April 2010. He also served as a Commissioner of the Victorian Law Reform Commission between 2003 and 2010.
Justice Ross succeeded Geoffrey Giudice as President of Fair Work Australia in March 2012 (which was renamed to the Fair Work Commission in January 2013).