Biography

Jason “Jay” Michael Ross is the Chair of the P.A.D. International Advisory Board. He has served on the International Executive Board as International Justice (2018-2020), International Vice Justice (2016-2018, and International Secretary (2014-2016). Our brother was initiated into Paterson Chapter at Seton Hall University School of Law on October 13, 2000 and was the 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 a co-alumni advisor for the Frelinghuysen Chapter at Rutgers-Camden Law from 2006 to 2010. Jay served as the District Justice for District XXII from 2007 to 2010, when District XXII became the “Most Improved District” in the Fraternity. In the summer of 2012, Jay documented the travel of the International Gavel on his drive from the east coast to the Biennial Convention in Scottsdale and back. He is also currently an Assistant District Justice for District XXI.

Jay completed his B.S. at Rutgers University in 1993, while working as a grocery clerk for a supermarket. 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. In 2003 he was appointed as a Deputy Attorney General in the New Jersey Division of Law in Trenton, NJ 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, NJ. From 2005 to 2012, Jay served as a Deputy Attorney General with the Enforcement Bureau of the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control in Trenton, NJ. Since late 2012, Jay has been in private law practice in Neptune, NJ, where he specializes in alcoholic beverage/liquor license law.

Jay is admitted to practice in Florida, New Jersey, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, and 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, along with several of our brothers and sisters, at the 40th Annual P.A.D. Day at the Supreme Court of the United States on June 5, 2006.

Jay serves as an Assistant Scoutmaster for the BSA Jersey Shore Council’s Troop 36 in Toms River, NJ and is a Volunteer Firefighter for the United Engine & Truck Company of the Bradley Beach Fire Department in Bradley Beach, NJ.

Jay is married to Teresa, who is a physician in Lakewood, NJ, and they have a son, Joshua, who is a student at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.

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