Rob Fortson - Education, legislative and regulatory law, governmental relations and labor & employment.

A recent addition to Georgia360 from the law firm of Alston & Bird, Rob Fortson brings the sophistication of a big firm legal practice to the regulatory and government relations issues facing Georgia360’s clients.  Rob’s areas of expertise include education, legislative and regulatory law, governmental relations and labor & employment.  He has served in a variety of roles in and around federal, state and local government, including stints in the legal counsel’s office at the U.S. Department of Education and the Georgia Municipal Association and a two year clerkship for U.S. District Court Judge Thomas W. Thrash.  At the U.S. Department of Education, Rob advised Department representatives on federal code and regulations affecting the Department's funding of state educational initiatives, including special education and charter school programs.

As a former teacher and coach in the Baltimore City Public School System and Teach For America alum, Rob continues to make education reform a professional and personal point of emphasis.  His Georgia360 clients include individual charter schools, virtual charter academies, and other reform minded education non-profits.  Rob also serves on Teach For America's Alumni Advisory Committee in Atlanta and is a member of the Board of Overseers at Ben Franklin Academy.  In the 2007-08 school year, he partnered with an Atlanta Public Schools Board Member as part of TFA’s School Board Fellows Program. 

Rob is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the University of Georgia School of Law.
 
When he’s not at work, Rob is President of Historic Decatur Condominiums and leads a Community Group at All Souls Fellowship in Decatur.  He and his wife, Meeghan, are both Atlanta natives and graduates of The Westminster Schools who now live in Decatur.