Ross and Laurell Ardern are the parents of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
Ross has a twin brother, Ian Ardern, a Latter-day Saints Church general authority. They were born on February 28, 1954.
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Jacinda’s father, Ross, was stationed as a police officer in the Bay of Plenty town of Murupara, where she spent a few years of her childhood.
Former police officer Ross Ardern is also a diplomat; he was the administrator of Tokelau from 2018 to 2022.
He was Niue’s police commissioner from 2005 to 2009 and also the High Commissioner of New Zealand to Niue from 2014 to 2018.
Ross joined the New Zealand Police in 1974 and was one of the officers who carried out the Dawn Raids on the pacific Island families in the 1970s.