Robert W. Jordan was sworn in on October 12, 2001 as Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
Prior to his appointment, Ambassador Jordan was a senior partner in the Trial Department of Baker, Botts, L.L.P., a firm founded in 1840 and today numbering over 600 lawyers in five domestic and three foreign offices. He is one of the founding partners in the firm's Dallas office. Ambassador Jordan served as President of the Dallas Bar Association in 1999. His practice has focused on business litigation and commercial arbitration, with emphasis on securities, antitrust, class actions and other business disputes.
Ambassador Jordan is active as an arbitrator, serving on the Commercial and Large Complex Case Panels of the American Arbitration Association and on the Panel of Distinguished Neutrals for the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution. He is on the national training faculty of the American Arbitration Association.
Ambassador Jordan is a member of the Board of Directors of the State Bar of Texas and American Bar Foundations. He is a Research Fellow of the Southwestern Legal Foundation and a member of the London Court of International Arbitration.
He is a 1967 Graduate of Duke University, holds an MA in Government and International Relations from the University of Maryland (1971) and a law degree from the University of Oklahoma (1974), where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Oklahoma Law Review.
Active in community affairs, Ambassador Jordan is a member of the Board of Governors of the Dallas Symphony Association; is President-elect of the Dallas Business Committee for the Arts; and a former Chair of the Advisory Board of the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. He is a member of the Leadership Dallas Alumni Association.
Ambassador Jordan is married to Dr. Ann T. Jordan, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Texas. They have three sons, Mark, Peter and Andrew.
