Robert Jordan, in his office at Southwest Airlines headquarters in Dallas, will take the lead in February as CEO at the company Herb Kelleher helped build into a commercial aviation juggernaut.

In 2022, Jordan received stock awards valued at $3.6 million, $676,875 in salary, a $195,720 cash bonus and $782,880 in incentive compensation, plus retirement-plan benefits.

Southwest Airlines’ CEO-in-waiting Robert Jordan is relatively unknown outside of the aviation industry, but he’s played key roles at the Dallas-based carrier since joining the company in 1988.

When Robert Jordan died in 2007, his wife and longtime editor, Harriet McDougal, wanted to shepherd his multivolume Wheel of Time series to completion, with Brandon Sanderson co-writing the final ...

Contributing columnist and former ambassador Robert Jordan writes that soft power still matters, and our global adversaries are using it to their advantage.(Michael Hogue) In 1961, President John ...

Jordan was appointed U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, a month after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Robert Jordan’s Tips for Other Entrepreneurs: The number one thing is to be honest with yourself. Don’t make believe you have a good idea. 100% focus on the problem that is in front of you.

Retired WGN-Ch. 9 news anchor Robert Jordan and his wife, Sharon, sold their five-bedroom, 5,000-square-foot brick house in Lincolnwood on March 6 for $1.25 million. Jordan, 76, retired from ...

Author Robert Jordan, whose “Wheel of Time” series of fantasy novels sold millions of copies, has died of a rare blood disease, his aide said Monday. He was 58. Jordan, whose real name was ...