Virginia Gorman

1985 - 1988

Detective Inspector Virginia (Ginny) Gorman has dedicated her career to criminal investigation and leadership within the New South Wales Police Force. She grew up in Kurmond, New South Wales, and lived at John XXIII College from 1985 to 1988 while studying an Arts degree majoring in Politics and Modern History, with a minor in Russian, followed by a Graduate Diploma in International Law. After several years travelling and working abroad, she joined the NSW Police Force in 1994, beginning a career that would see her rise through some of the state’s most demanding investigative roles.

Ginny commenced work as a criminal investigator in 1998, progressing through the Homicide Squad, Robbery and Serious Crime Squads, and later the Professional Standards Command, where she was promoted to Detective Inspector in 2016. In 2019, she returned to leading major investigations within the Homicide Squad. By 2026, she has also served in extended acting roles as Detective Superintendent across multiple specialist commands, including Homicide, Robbery and Serious Crime, and Raptor Squads, reflecting her depth of experience and leadership across complex investigations.

In 2023, Ginny was awarded the Australian Police Medal (APM) in the King’s Birthday Honours, recognising her extensive contribution to major crime investigations and her role in the rewriting of Critical Incident Guidelines. Widely respected as a leader and role model for women in policing, her friends from John XXIII are her biggest cheerleaders but they would be the first to claim that she only joined the cops because the leave periods allow her to indulge her ongoing passion for travel!

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.”

- Mark Twain

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