As commanding officer of Company K, 167th infantry, 42nd "Rainbow Division" Alabama Army National Guard, he was mortally wounded while leading his sector in battle.
[3] Mortimer Jordan High School opened in the fall of 1920 at its original campus in Morris, Alabama.
Ninety students were enrolled at the start of the year, and the first graduating class consisted of Sudie Counts and Eileen Jenkins, both of whom became teachers.
[citation needed] The original facility was located in Morris, with the property directly adjacent to the city limits of Kimberly.
Until that time, students in the Gardendale area attended Mortimer Jordan High School.
In its last incarnation at the Morris site, the school consisted of a multi-complex that included two gymnasiums, academic classrooms, and a lunchroom.
A brand-new Mortimer Jordan High School was built on Bone Dry Road, approximately four miles from the old site.
The original site in Morris was converted into the William E. Burkett Center for handicapped students; the W.E.B.C.
Suddeth 1965- William E. Burkett 1968- Jimmie A. Trotter 2000- Byron Campbell 2009- Barbara Snider 2014- Craig Kanaday 2024- Rodney Ragland Since its establishment, Mortimer Jordan High School has had fourteen principles.
The Mortimer Jordan High School athletic department fields teams in basketball, baseball, bowling, cross country, indoor track, outdoor track, football, softball, volleyball, wrestling, tennis, golf, and soccer.
MJHS competes in Class 6A of Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA).
MJ Athletics has traditional rivalries with Corner and Gardendale High Schools.
Mortimer Jordan High School currently holds six team state championship titles (2 boys, 4 girls).
[6] Goode has led the Blue Devils to eight playoff appearances, the most in school history for head football coaches.
[7] The longest-serving head football coach in school history was Greg Watts.
The football program was the 5A runner-up in 2015, playing in its first AHSAA Super 7 appearance at Bryant-Denny Stadium.
The longest-serving head boys basketball coach in school history is Josh Golden.
Since, the Blue Devils have had eight state tournament appearances, making it to the Elite 8 playoff round in 1929 and 1944.
[12] The Mortimer Jordan High basketball program gained its first AHSAA state championship title in 1928.
The longest-serving head baseball coach in school history is Shayne Carnes.
Jordan's wrestling team has had many individual titles including four-time state champions Brandon Brindley (2009–12) and Brodie Christmas (2021–24).
That streak carried over into the 2010 season, and ended at 59 games when Jordan lost to Angelo Rodriguez High School of Fairfield, California in the ESPN RISE/Nike Fastest to First Tournament in Huntington Beach, California on March 25, 2010.
Jordan also won the 2011 championship, only the fourth team in state history to win a title after losing their opening game in the double-elimination tournament.
The longest-serving head girls basketball coach in school history is Kelly Robinson.