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.

Jordan, 60, joined the airline in 1988, and has served in roles including director of revenue accounting and corporate controller, among others. He will take charge effective Feb. 1, 2022.

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 ...

Kathryn Jordan always feared that a day like Tuesday might come. Her husband, Robert Jordan, a cyclist and small businessman, often insisted on commuting from their home in northern Davidson ...

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 ...

2: Tours served by Jordan in Vietnam as a helicopter gunner. 58: Jordan's age when he died on Sept. 16, 2007, of the rare blood disease amyloidosis. 3: Books completed by Sanderson.

Robert Jordan was the pen name of James Oliver Rigney Jr. (1948-2007), who wrote historical romances, Westerns and even a few Conan the Barbarian novels before embarking on the epic "Wheel of Time ...