Frederick E. Jordan - the president of F.E. Jordan Associates, Inc., a consulting engineering, architectural, environmental, and construction management firm headquartered in San Francisco
- is founder and chair of the California Business Council for Equal Opportunity, a coalition of 80 organizations, which defended affirmative action against 12 California legislative bills and Prop.
209, the California Civil Rights Initiative passed by the voters in November 1996. He and Martin
Luther King III are co-chairs of Americans United for Affirmative Action which, among other things, works to defeat 209 initiatives in other states.

His articles and Op-Ed pieces have appeared in major newspapers across the nation. He is past chair of both the San Francisco Bay Area Urban League and the California Minority and Woman Business Coalition. Formerly, he was president of the San Francisco Black Chamber of Commerce. At present he is on the Board of both the National Black Chamber of Commerce and the Greenlining Institute. Mr. Jordan recently completed four years as a San Francisco Commissioner and five years as a California State Commissioner. Mr. Jordan, who has undergraduate and graduate degrees in civil engineering from Howard and Stanford, respectively, is a registered professional engineer in 15 states.