Jason M. "Jay" Ross
Jason Michael (“Jay”) Ross has served as an International Executive Board Member-at-Large since 2010. Our brother was initiated into the Paterson Chapter at Seton Hall University School of Law on October 13, 2000, and was the Paterson Chapter Marshal from 2001 to 2002. He subsequently became active with the New Jersey Statewide Alumni Chapter and served as its Vice Justice from 2002 to 2006, Justice from 2006 to 2008, and Clerk towards the end of 2008. At that time, Jay assisted with the reactivation of the Elden S. Magaw Philadelphia Alumni Chapter, which had been inactive for many years, and took on the role as its Treasurer from 2009 to 2010. He was also a co-alumni advisor for the Frelinghuysen Chapter at Rutgers-Camden Law from 2006 to 2010. Jay also served as the District Justice for District XXII from 2007 to 2010, when District XXII became the “Most Improved District” in the fraternity.
Jay completed his B.S. at Rutgers University in 1993, while working as a grocery clerk for the A&P. He subsequently received his M.P.A. from Seton Hall University in 1996, while employed as a caseworker for the Essex County Department of Citizen Services, and received his J.D. in 2002, from Seton Hall University School of Law, after attending night school for four years while working as a paralegal for two Northern New Jersey law firms. After law school, Jay served as a law clerk for the State Administrative Law Judges at the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law in Trenton, Newark and Atlantic City, NJ, and in 2003, was appointed as a Deputy Attorney General in the New Jersey Division of Law in Trenton, New Jersey, where he handled matters on behalf of the New Jersey Department of Education, School Ethics Commission, Board of Examiners and Department of Human Services. In that capacity, he was also counsel for Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. Since 2005, Jay has served as a Deputy Attorney General with the Enforcement Bureau of the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control in Trenton, New Jersey.
Jay is admitted to practice in the States of Florida and New Jersey, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third and Eleventh Circuits. He was also admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States at the 40th Annual P.A.D. Day at the Supreme Court on June 5, 2006.
Additionally, Jay serves as an Assistant Scoutmaster for the BSA Jersey Shore Council’s Troop 36 in Toms River, New Jersey, and is a Volunteer Firefighter for the United Engine & Truck Company of the Bradley Beach Fire Department in Bradley Beach, New Jersey.
Jay is married to Teresa, who is a physician in Lakewood, New Jersey, and they have a 12-year-old son, Joshua. They currently reside at the Jersey Shore with their guinea pig.
