Graham (Polly) Farmer MBE
Dr Sue Gordon AM
 Dr Sue Gordon AM
President Dr Sue Gordon was awarded the Order of Australia for commitment to Aboriginal people and community affairs in 1993.
In 1988 she became the first full-time and first Aboriginal Magistrate in the Children's Court of Western Australia in Perth.
In 2000, she was appointed as Chairperson of the 'Inquiry into Response by Government Agencies to Complaints of Family Violence and Child Abuse in Aboriginal Communties' known as the 'Gordon Inquiry'.
Dr Gordon was appointed as Chairperson of the National Indigenous Council in 2004 a position she held until 2008.
In 2003, Dr Gordon received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters (Hon.DLitt) from the University of Western Australia.
In 2009 she was appointed to the Indiegnous Implementation Board of Western Australia.
 Hon Fred Chaney AO Deputy President Deputy President Fred Chaney has a very long association with Indigenous people in a wide variety of roles including as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs in the Fraser Government. He was a member of the National Native Title Tribunal and it's Deputy President over 12 years until 2007. He is currently a Director of Reconciliation Australia and Chair of Desert Knowledge Australia.
Neil Jarvis joined The Graham (Polly) Farmer Foundation in July 2002 as General Manager Projects. For the decade of the 1990’s he was a member of the Senior Executive of the Western Australian Department of Education. During that time some of his responsibilities were for strategic initiatives such as Indigenous Education, school restructuring and rural education. He was also the National representative for key policy bodies, such as those dealing with the Information Economy, Equity Strategies, and the National Goals of Schooling. Since 2001 he also has worked with, Edith Cowan University, The Insurance Commission of Western Australia (Road Safety) and as a Director of RM Australasia Pty Ltd (School Administration, Teaching and Learning Technologies).
Before joining The Graham (Polly) Farmer Foundation in January 2009 Douglas Mitchell was Principal Consultant, Participation Standards, in the Aboriginal Education and Training Directorate of the Western Australian Department of Education and Training. He is a former tutor and lecturer at universities in policy analysis, government and business and Australian politics. Douglas has also served state, territory and federal governments both as a public servant and chief of staff. For twenty years he was a project proponent and a strategy consultant to private sector companies, including six corporations in the Fortune 500 global ranking. Between 2005 and 2008 Douglas was an independent non-executive director of a Pilbara based Aboriginal enterprise.
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Beth Crowley
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