After his playing career, Forhan became a high school teacher and then embarked on a political career from the 1970s to 1996. He served on the Newmarket Town Council, mayor of Newmarket, chair of the Regional Municipality of York (1978 to 1984) and chief administrative officer of the Regional Municipality of York from 1978 to 1995.
In 2010 he was one of the seven "inaugural inductees to the Newmarket Sports Hall of Fame."[1]