Gordon Davis

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Gordon Jamison Davis (August 7, 1941 – October 4, 2026) was an American lawyer and civic leader. He was born in Chicago in 1941 and moved to New York City after his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1967, where he became a leader in New York City's public, civic, and legal affairs. He was Mayor Ed Koch's first New York City Parks Commissioner and is considered to have been New York's most successful parks commissioner since the Robert Moses era. In 2012, Davis became a partner in the New York office of the law firm Venable LLP. Davis was one of the first African Americans to become a partner in a major New York corporate law firm (Lord Day & Lord, 1983). He was the Founding Chairman of Jazz at Lincoln Center, one of the four Founding Trustees of the Central Park Conservancy, a Founding Member in the first class inducted into the Performing Arts Hall of Fame at Lincoln Center, a Life Trustee of the New York Public Library, an appointee of President Barack Obama to the board of the Kennedy...

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