Fiona was appointed Victorian Legal Services Commissioner and CEO of the Legal Services Board in January 2018. She was reappointed to the role for a second five-year term on 8 January 2023. Fiona is the former CEO of the access to justice organisation, Justice Connect, and has previously held a number of senior roles, including General Counsel and Company Secretary at World Vision Australia and Special Counsel at Clayton Utz.
Fiona has a BA (Hons) from the University of Melbourne majoring in psychology with honours in criminology, an LLB from the University of NSW and an LLM in public and international law from the University of Melbourne. She also has an LLM in public service law from the New York University Law School and has attended both the Harvard and Stanford Business Schools, where she completed the Stanford Executive Program in 2017.
Fiona is the Co-Chair of Equality Australia and the chair of the Australian Communities Foundation. She was the augural Deputy Chair of the Australian Non-for-Profit and Charities Commission Advisory Board for five years, was on the board of the Human Rights Law Centre from 2010 to 2017 and the inaugural Board Chair of Health Justice Australia from 2016 until 2023.