Leneen Forde

Leneen Forde
22nd Governor of Queensland
In office
29 July 1992 – 29 July 1997
MonarchElizabeth II
PremierWayne Goss
Rob Borbidge
Preceded bySir Walter Campbell
Succeeded byPeter Arnison
Personal details
Born
Mary Marguerite Leneen Kavanagh

(1935-05-12) 12 May 1935 (age 89)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada[1]
Spouses
Gerald Forde
(m. 1955; died 1966)
Angus McDonald
(m. 1983; died 1993)
RelationsFrank Forde (father-in-law)
Alma materUniversity of Queensland
OccupationSolicitor

Mary Marguerite Leneen Forde, AC DStJ (born 12 May 1935) is a retired solicitor and former Chancellor of Griffith University, who served as the 22nd Governor of Queensland from 1992 until 1997.[2] Forde chaired the Commission of Inquiry into Abuse of Children in Queensland Institutions during 1998 and 1999 that found systemic child abuse in government or non-government institutions between 1911 and 1999.

  1. ^ "Forde, Leneen AC". Herald and Weekly Times. Who's Who in Australia. 2002.
  2. ^ "Biography: Leneen Forde". Women in Law in Queensland. Supreme Court of Queensland Library. 2003. Archived from the original on 14 January 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2012.