Gordon Davis

Gordon Jamison Davis is an American lawyer and civic leader. Born in Chicago in 1941, he has been a resident of New York City since his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1967. Davis served as Mayor Ed Koch's first New York City Parks Commissioner and is renowned as one of New York's most successful parks commissioners since the Robert Moses era. In 2012, he became a partner at the law firm Venable LLP. Davis holds the distinction of being one of the first African Americans to become a partner in a major New York corporate law firm. He is also the Founding Chairman of Jazz at Lincoln Center and a Trustee of the Central Park Conservancy and the New York Public Library.