Early Life
Forrester is the youngest of five children. His father never graduated from high school, but worked his way through the ranks at Lockheed Martin, while his mother died when he was four. His father remarried.
Forrester excelled in water polo at high school in Santa Clara, California. He studied at Harvard, from which he graduated cum laude in 1975, having studied philosophy and government.
Forrester then moved to New Jersey to study at the Princeton Theological Seminary, where he earned a master's degree in divinity. He then married childhood friend Andrea Howard, and moved to West Windsor.
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