Dr. E. Gordon Gee

Dr. E. Gordon Gee is President Emeritus of West Virginia University and has been a leader in higher education for more than three decades. In 2009 Time magazine named him one of the top ten university presidents in the United States. In addition to his service at West Virginia University, he served as president of The Ohio State University twice, and of Vanderbilt University, Brown University, and the University of Colorado.

Before starting his career in higher education, he clerked under Chief Justice David T. Lewis of the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals and was a judicial fellow and staff assistant to the U.S. Supreme Court, where he worked for Chief Justice Warren Burger.

Selected experience

• Co-author of more than a dozen books, including Leading Colleges and Universities and Land-Grant Universities for the Future
• Board of Trustees, National 4-H Council; National Executive Board, Boy Scouts of America
• Chaired the Big 12 Board of Directors Executive Committee for 2017-18 and served as a Big 12 representative on the College Football Playoff Board of Managers
• Member of the Committee for Economic Development Task Force on Building a More Civil and Just Society
• Inaugural member of the Education Advisory Board Presidents Advisory Council