About Gordon
Gordon attended the Basic CERT Class in 2008, where he discovered that Jim Bonato and he served together in the 14th Armored Calvary Regiment during the early 70’s.
Gordon’s family moved to Pleasant Hill in 1949 where he grew up and has always considered it home regardless of where he lived. Gordon retired from PG&E in 2009 after 37 years, where he managed a department of Regulatory Analysts. Gordon and his wife Janis have one son and two grandchildren and currently live in Vacaville.
After the death of his daughter in 2004, Gordon got involved with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). He was a Board Member with the Greater San Francisco Bay Area Chapter for 12 years and served as its Board Chair from 2011 to 2014. Under Gordon’s leadership the Chapter received 16 national awards and in 2014 was recognized as AFSP’s Overall Outstanding Chapter in the Nation. In 2015, Gordon was recognized as AFSP’s Public Policy Field Advocate of the Year and in 2020 received AFSP’s Perspicacity Award for his legislative work in Sacramento and Washington D.C. This award has only be given out 3 times in AFSP’s 34 year history. Gordon has also served on AFSP’s National Chapter Leadership Council, National Public Policy Council, Chaired the California Public Policy Committee, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction’s Student Mental Health Policy Workgroup, Solano, Napa and Contra Costa County’s Behavioral Health’s Suicide Prevention Committees, Chaired the Governor’s Interagency Prevention Action Committee’s Suicide Prevention and Depression Work Group and served on the Community Advisory Board for the Depression Center of Excellence at UCSF’s Langley Porter Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital.
He now spends his time helping to raise his grandchildren, gardening and continues his involvement with Pleasant Hill CERT.
