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Gordon J. Davis

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black [1]
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Attorney
Party Affiliation: Democratic

[1] Elisabeth Bumiller, "Lincoln Center Homecoming for Jazz Lover", The New York Times, 21 August 1998: "Friends describe him in that period, and now, as patrician, sometimes hilarious and ultimately self-contained -- the complicated personality, they say, of a man who is so light-skinned that black boys wanted to beat him up as a child because they thought he was white. Conversely, the white students at Williams -- and later the partners at nearly all-white law firms in New York -- sometimes made racial comments before they knew he was black. 'You know that I am African-American?' Mr. Davis said casually. 'Often people don't know that until it's too late.'"

Father: W. Allison Davis (Professor, University of Chicago)
Wife: Peggy Cooper
Daughter: Elizabeth

University: BA, Williams College (1963)
Law School: JD, Harvard Law School (1967)
Professor: New York University

Dewey & LeBoeuf Partner (2007-)
LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae Partner (2001-07)
New York City Official Commissioner, Planning Commission (1973-79)
Member of the Board of Consolidated Edison (1997-)
Member of the Board of Phoenix Companies (2000-)
Bill Bradley for President
Hillary Clinton for President
Illinois State Bar Association 1968
Jazz at Lincoln Center Chairman (1989)
Lincoln Center Board of Directors
MoveOn.org
National Leadership PAC
New York State Bar Association 1973
New York Public Library Trustee
New York Shakespeare Festival Board of Directors
Obama for America
Obama for Illinois
Obama Victory Fund 2012
Studio Museum (Harlem) Trustee

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