William Gordon Mathews (February 26, 1877 – June 15, 1923) was a Federal judge and lawyer from Charleston, West Virginia, serving as Referee in Bankruptcy for Kanawha, West Virginia 1898–1908, and Clerk of the Court for Kanawha 1903–1904.

In 1895 he enrolled in Georgetown Law School for one year, afterward completing his degree at the University of Virginia School of Law, graduating in 1897 at 20 years of age.

[1] Mathews entered a law partnership with Wesley Mallohan and George McClintic and was appointed referee in bankruptcy for Kanawha, West Virginia, in 1898 by John B. Jackson, in the first year the federal office was created by the United States Congress.

[3] In 1903 he served as the clerk of court for Kanawha County on the death of Judge F. A.

When the United States entered World War I, Mathews was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson as the legal member of the District Board of the Southern District of West Virginia under the Selective Service Act of May 18, 1917, and served in that capacity until the end of the war.