Robert Elijah Jordan III

Dad, as life goes by, I look at your photo every day and feel that drop of my stomach as if it were just yesterday I saw you fighting for life. You defied it. You growled at it, daring it to step into the courtroom. Unfortunately, Cancer won. I hope those last moments on earth released you to a place free of suffering, burden, and frailties of the human kind. I dream that you, Granddaddy, Nana Lou, all of your aunts and uncles and Jennifer have found that place freedom. You shouldn't have...

May 10, 2020: It has taken me years to appreciate my Mother’s constant reassurance that after her death she would never leave me and always be there for me. As I have lost other friends and slowly climbed out from under the emotional state of sadness of each loss and especially on the anniversaries of their losses, you realize you have moved beyond sadness to a state of sorrow where my sense of what I have lost simply remains a constant. It is learning to live with the “black hole” that...

Missing you, Dad.

Another year has passed and appropriate to testify to Bob's legacy. I firmly believe that there are some who bring a light so great into this world that even after they are gone, their light remains. That light can be physical (Edison's bulb, Pasteur, Ehrlich, Salk), or spiritual (Christ's Gospels) or verbal (literary writers and poets) or oral (composers - Mozart) or metaphysical (philosophers) or political (Founding Fathers). What else was the "EnLIGHTenment?" And each one of us has...

Bob was a great advocate and a great fellow, with the pro bono spirit of a giving lawyer. When, as new D.C. Corporation Counsel in 1997, I discovered that the office had no functional computer network, Bob -- without charge -- arranged for the design and implementation of a new system, just one incident evidencing his generous nature.

My wife, Agata, and I knew Mr. Jordan near the end of his life. My wife watched over him during the days until there was need for a nurse. We helped him build the second level onto his train set in the garage. During this time we got to know him pretty well. He use to wear this aviator suit everywhere.

My wife would come home laughing ... saying that they would be at a store and a Mr. Jordan would give the cashier a bit of a hard time and turn to Agata as they were leaving and say...

Because I've been away from D.C. for several months, I did not learn of Bob's death until a few days ago. It saddens me greatly. I have known Bob for several decades because of his service to our court, particularly in the field of legal ethics, where he was the leader to be sure. In addition to being president of the D.C. Bar, Bob chaired the Bar's committee to study the new ABA Model Code on Professional Responsibility. He educated us all, through many presentations, about the new world of...

Bob was a great friend and neighbor as well as a valued colleague to Andy during the oil litigation lasting from the 1970s through the nineties. He was a brilliant advocate on behalf of his client ARCO often bearing the burdens of the entire industry in his always principled representations.As a neighbor and friend,there was none better.