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Gordon Gee, among
the most highly
experienced and
respected university
presidents in the
nation, returned to
The Ohio State
University after
having served as
Chancellor of
Vanderbilt
University for seven
years. Prior to his
tenure at
Vanderbilt, he was
president of Brown
University
(1998-2000), The
Ohio State
University
(1990-97), the
University of
Colorado (1985-90),
and West Virginia
University
(1981-85).
Born
in Vernal, Utah, Gee
graduated from the
University of Utah
with an honors
degree in history
and earned his J.D.
and Ed.D degrees
from Columbia
University. He
clerked under Chief
Justice David T.
Lewis of the U.S.
10th Circuit Court
of Appeals before
being named a
judicial fellow and
staff assistant to
the U.S. Supreme
Court, where he
worked for Chief
Justice Warren
Burger on
administrative and
legal problems of
the Court and
federal judiciary.
Gee returned to Utah
as an associate
professor and
associate dean in
the J. Reuben Clark
Law School at
Brigham Young
University,
eventually achieving
the rank of full
professor. In 1979
he was named dean of
the West Virginia
University Law
School, and in 1981
was appointed to
that university’s
presidency.
Active in a number
of national
professional and
service
organizations, Gee
served as a Trustee
for the Harry S.
Truman Scholarship
Foundation and as
chairman of the
Kellogg Commission
on the Future of
State and Land-Grant
Universities. He is
a member of the
National Commission
on Writing for
America's Families,
Schools, and
Colleges, founded by
the College Board to
improve the teaching
and learning of
writing. He also
serves as co-chair
of the Association
of Public and
Land-Grant
Universities’ Energy
Advisory Committee.
Gee is a
member of the Board
of Governors of the
National Hospice
Foundation, the
Advisory Board of
the Christopher
Isherwood
Foundation, and a
Trustee Emeritus of
the Christopher
Columbus Fellowship
Foundation, an
independent Federal
government agency
established to
“encourage and
support research,
study and labor
designed to produce
new discoveries in
all fields of
endeavor for the
benefit of mankind.”
He also is a member
of the
Business-Higher
Education Forum.
Gee has received
a number of honorary
degrees, awards, and
recognitions. He was
a Mellon Fellow for
the Aspen Institute
for Humanistic
Studies and a W.K.
Kellogg Fellow. In
1994, he received
the Distinguished
Alumnus Award from
the University of
Utah as well as from
Teachers College of
Columbia University.
He is the co-author
of eight books and
the author of
numerous papers and
articles on law and
education.
Gee’s daughter,
Rebekah, is an
Assistant Professor
of Public Health and
Medicine in the
School of Public
Health at Louisiana
State University and
a Norman F.
Gant/American Board
of Obstetrics and
Gynecology/IOM
Anniversary Fellow.
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