Gordon Jamison Davis is an American lawyer and civic leader. He was born in Chicago in 1941 and has been a resident of New York City since his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1967, and has been a prominent leader in New York City's public, civic, and legal affairs for four decades. He was Mayor Ed Koch's first New York City Parks Commissioner and is considered one of New York's most successful parks commissioners. Since 2012, Davis has been 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 is 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 Center for the Performing Arts, and a recipient of an honorary degree (LL.D.) and the Bicentennial Medal from his alma mater, Williams College.
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