- Civil rights activist in the United States since the late 1950s.
- His estimated net worth is $12 million.
- One child, a daughter, Vickee Jordan Adams, by first wife, Shirley Yarbrough Jordan.
- Assassin Joseph Paul Franklin was first acquitted on attempted murder charges of Jordan in 1982. In 1986, Franklin, after having been convicted of murder in another case, admitted to having committed the shooting of Vernon Jordan in 1980..
- 1957 graduate from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, USA, as the only black student in a class of 400 students.
- On May 29, 1980, Jordan was shot and seriously wounded outside the Marriott Inn in Fort Wayne, Indiana. President Jimmy Carter was one of his first visitors in the hospital. This was the first story covered on-air by the then new Cable News Network (CNN).
- Jordan was part of the legal team that helped Charlayne Hunter (now Charlayne Hunter-Gault) and Hamilton Holmes win admission as the University of Georgia's first African-American students in 1961.
- He was an honor graduate of the class of 1953 at David Tobias Howard High School in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
- Served as a member of president George W. Bush's Iraq Study Group, which was formed to make recommendations on U.S. policy in Iraq.
- Was the May 2017 commencement speaker at the 163rd annual commencement ceremony of Syracuse University, in Syracuse, New York, USA.
- 1960 graduate from Howard University School of Law (one of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities) with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Is a member of the Omega Psi Phi and Sigma Pi Phi fraternities.
- Child of Mary Jordan and Vernon E. Jordan Sr.; and has one sibling, a brother named Windsor.
- Was an official invitee and long time participant at over 35 Bilderberg Group Conferences between 1969 and at least 2013.
- Interviewed with Robert Penn Warren for the book "Who Speaks for the Negro?," where Jordan described his difficulties at DePauw as the only black student in a class of 400.
- Was a presidential advisor, family advisor, endorser and campaign advisor to both Hilary Clinton presidential campaigns, and close personal friend of both President Bill Clinton and Secretary Hillary Clinton.
- Has two grandsons.
- Has advised at least four United States Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Barack Obama.
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