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American Bar Association Law Student Division |
Student Lawyer October 1998 Volume 27, Number 2 |
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After successfully conquering the hospitality industry, law student David Jordan has a new challenge. Jordan, a second-year student at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, has been elected as the next vice-chair/SBA of the American Bar Association's Law Student Division.
The vice-chair/SBA is elected at the division's Annual Meeting by the division's Board of Governors. Jordan will serve one year as the vice-chair/SBA-elect, and will take over as the vice-chair/SBA at the 1999 Annual Meeting in Atlanta. The other three national officers who will serve with Jordan as Law Student Division leaders for 1999-2000 will be elected at the fall meeting of the Board of Governors in Memphis in November.
Jordan graduated from Oklahoma State University with a degree in hotel administration, then worked as a restaurant
general manager in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri. Most recently he coordinated the development of Applebee's restaurants in Oklahoma. He noticed he was dealing with legal issues in business nearly every day and, because he felt the legal profession was more stable than the volatile hospitality industry, he went back to school. He was in law school for a week when, he says, "somebody talked me into running for class rep." A month later he attended a circuit conference and got involved in the ABA. He is second-year class rep to his law school's student bar association (SBA). He also was lieutenant governor for SBAs for the Tenth Circuit, which comprises Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas, but he has resigned that position to avoid a conflict of interest with his new job. Why jump up to national office? Jordan says his school is "not a heavy-duty big-hitter SBA or law school." Yet the SBA and the ABA chapter at the University of Oklahoma College of Law work well together and with the administration to accomplish the goals of the student body. Jordan intends to use his school as a model as he works to foster cooperation between SBA members and officers and ABA/LSD members and representatives. "I really like to lead," Jordan says. "I don't mean that to sound cocky, but I like to bring people together. I like to look across a sea of people and pull the commonality of issues. What is the common denominator? I like to help people focus and figure out how to focus." Lee Farbman |