David J. Jordan was the United States Attorney for the District of Utah from 1991-1993 and has been the Chair of the Board of Regents of the Utah System of Higher Education since 2010. Jordan was raised in West Point, New York. He earned his bachelor's degree at Bowdoin College and his law degree from Vanderbilt University. He then was a law clerk with a federal court in Tennessee and then a lawyer with the VanCott firm. From 1989-1991 he was Chair of the Southern Utah University Board of Trustees. He again served as chair of the SUU board of trustees from 1993-1997, and starting in 1997 was a member of the Board of Regents of the Utah Higher Education System. In 2012, he was awarded and honorary doctorate from SUU, and sources say he “gave an awesome speech.”