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About James D. Gordon III
- James D.
- Gordon III (born February 9, 1954) is an American legal academic who has also held administrative positions at Brigham Young University (BYU). As a young man, Gordon served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Italy. Gordon earned a bachelor's degree in political science from BYU.
- He then earned a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
- He was a law clerk for Judge Monroe G.
- McKay of the 10th United States Circuit court.
- He then practiced law in Salt Lake City before joining the BYU faculty. At BYU, Gordon served as Marion B.
- and Rulon A.
- Earl Professor of Law.
- He also was acting dean of the J.
- Reuben Clark Law School from 2009 to 2010 and served for a time as associate academic vice president for faculty at BYU.
- In this position, he served as the point man for the university's position in relation to the refusal to grant continuing status to a few professors at BYU in the mid-1990s who publicly criticized the school or its sponsoring institution instead of producing what BYU deemed to be worth-while scholarship in their fields of endeavor.
- The most drastic case that Gordon had to deal with may have been Gail T.
- Houston, who advocated prayer practices out-of-line with the teachings of the LDS Church.In 2010, he was appointed assistant to the president for planning and assessment at BYU, filling the position vacated by Gerrit W.
- Gong, who become a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy. Among other positions in the LDS Church, Gordon has served as a bishop and counselor in a stake presidency.
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