Robert Elijah Jordan III (1936–2010) was an American lawyer who served as General Counsel of the Army from 1967 to 1971.

In 1963, he served as Staff Director of the President’s Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Armed Forces.

He was then Special Assistant for Civil Rights in the Office of the United States Secretary of Defense from 1963 to 1964.

He moved to the Office of the United States Secretary of the Treasury in 1965, serving as Executive Assistant for Enforcement.

[1] Jordan left government service in 1971, joining the Washington, D.C., law firm of Steptoe & Johnson as a partner, a position he would hold until his death.