Gordon P. Robertson

Gordon Perry Robertson (born June 4, 1958) is the President of the Christian Broadcasting Network, President of Operation Blessing International, and Chancellor of Regent University. He is the main host of The 700 Club, the show founded by his father, Pat Robertson. Early life Robertson was born in New York City to Pat and Adelia (née Elmer) Robertson. His father had graduated from Yale Law School and would soon earn his Master of Divinity at The Biblical Seminary in New York. His mother, Dede, had a Master of Nursing degree from Yale School of Nursing. When Robertson was two years old, his father and mother started Christian Broadcasting Network in Portsmouth, Virginia. Raised in Virginia, Robertson attended The McCallie School, a college-preparatory school in Chattanooga, Tennessee and graduated cum laude in 1976. He graduated from Yale in 1980, with a bachelor's degree in history. Following Yale, Robertson enrolled in Washington and Lee University School of Law, became a Burks Scholar in his third year, and received his juris doctor degree, cum laude, in 1984. Early career Robertson practiced law at Vandeventer, Black in Norfolk, Virginia, becoming a partner in 1989. In 1994 on a short-term mission trip to India with Rev. John Giminez, Robertson had a profound religious experience that changed the course of his life. He left the practice of law and moved his family to the Philippines to start the Asian Center for Missions.