Join us this Friday at Embassy Suites to welcome Past District Governor Margie Kersey, and learn more about the power of The Rotary Foundation.

Margie Kersey joined Rotary as a charter member of the Rotary Club of Lake Spivey (then Clayton County Daybreak) on February 16, 1998, and served as President in 1999-2000. She joined the Rotary Club of Stone Mountain July 2006 and was President in 2016-17. She is now a member of the Rotary Satellite Club of Stone Mountain Passport where she serves as Treasurer. She is a Major Donor, Bequest Society member and is very honored to have been named District Rotarian of the Year in 2008 and as recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from The Rotary Foundation.

Margie served as District Governor in 2011-12 and District Rotary Foundation Chair for 2016-2019. She has also served as District Trainer for three Governors and as President of The CART Fund (Coins for Alzheimer’s Research Trust). She served as the District Council on Legislation representative in 2019 and as curriculum and training chair for PETS for 12 years.

She is a graduate of Rotary Leadership Institute and is the past Chair of RLI Sunshine Division. She now serves as the Curriculum Chair. Over the past few years, she rolled out RLI Online, adapting the RLI curriculum to online delivery. Her most recent appointment is to the RLI International Board of Directors where she is serving as the Curriculum, Faculty and Training chair as well as Communications Director. She has received both the Outstanding Service Award and the Distinguished Service Award from RLI International. She is enjoying the challenge of working with Rotarians from around the world.

Margie is self-employed with her husband, Ron Kersey, as financial and estate planners specializing in timberland. She is currently working on her doctoral degree in adult education and curriculum at Valdosta State University.

Ron and Margie live in Lawrenceville where they attend wine tastings whenever they can.