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And in December 2012, he was asked to serve on the Columbus Education Commission. In 2011-2012, he was asked by Governor Kasich to chair both the Ohio Higher Education Capital Funding Collaborative and the Ohio Higher Education Funding Commission. In 2011, Gee was appointed to serve as secretary on the Board of Directors of Ohio’s economic development program, JobsOhio.

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In 2009, Gee was invited to join the International Advisory Board of King Adbulaziz University in Saudi Arabia.Īctive in a number of national professional and service organizations during his tenures, he has served on the boards for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc., Limited Brands, and the National 4-H Council. He was chair of the American Council on Education’s Commission on Higher Education Attainment and served as co-chair of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities’ Energy Advisory Committee. Gee has been a member of several education-governance organizations and committees, including the Big Ten Conference Council of Presidents, the Inter-University Council of Ohio, the Business-Higher Education Forum, and the American Association of Universities. One year later, he was named dean of the West Virginia University Law School, and, in 1981, was appointed to that university’s presidency.

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Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, and was granted full professorship in 1978. Gee returned to Utah as an associate professor and associate dean in the J. In this role, he worked for Chief Justice Warren Burger on administrative and legal problems of the Court and federal judiciary. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals before being named a judicial fellow and staff assistant to the U.S. Gee has served in higher education for more than three decades and in 2009 was named by Time magazine as one of the top-ten university presidents in the United States.īorn in Vernal, Utah, Gee graduated from the University of Utah with an honors degree in history and earned his J.D. He returned to WVU to serve as president for a term in January 2014, and was confirmed as the permanent president in March 2014. Prior to his service at Ohio State, he led Vanderbilt University (2001-2007), Brown University (1998-2000), the University of Colorado (1985-1990), and West Virginia University (1981-1985). Gordon Gee served as president of The Ohio State University from 1990 to 1997 and again from 2007 to 2013.

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