William J. Gordy (May 18, 1910 – August 19, 1993[1]) was an American potter based in Cartersville, Georgia, who has won several awards and honours for his work.
[3] He learned to make pottery by watching the men his father had hired from all over the United States as they made primarily butter churns, jars, pitchers and jugs.
He left his father's shop and worked in several pottery businesses in North Carolina and Georgia, seeing and learning new techniques.
He served on a destroyer in the Navy during World War II, and enjoyed traveling to different ports and seeing the local pottery.
He was a lifetime member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild, and was also an instructor at John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina.