Katharine E. Rounthwaite, JD - Chair of the Board,
National Fraternal Congress of America

Kate Rounthwaite is Vice President, General Counsel and Executive Secretary of Foresters. She earned her Bachelor of Arts and J.D. at University of Toronto, and her Masters at Carleton University. 

Prior to joining Foresters in 1993, Rounthwaite worked as Counsel at Crown Life Insurance Company and at Aetna Canada now Maritime Life. In December 1998, she was appointed Vice President & General Counsel, and then in March 2003, she was appointed Executive Secretary to the Board of Directors. 

In her 26 years of practicing law, Rounthwaite has developed expertise in the areas of insurance law, litigation management, employment relations, and corporate commercial law, with a focus on the US insurance market place.

She was elected to a three-year term on the board of the National Fraternal Congress of America (NFCA) in September 2004. She also has served on the NFCA’s Law Committee since 1998, and served as Committee Chair since September 2004.

As her current community service commitment, Rounthwaite volunteers as a Board member of the Bayview Community Hospice. She has done a variety of other community service roles in the past such as Chair of her children’s School Parents Association, and Convener of girls basketball league for 6 years. She and her husband, David Lipton, have 4 children between the ages of 17 and 23.

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