About:
Gordon Petrie is a retired state trial judge and retired Idaho Army National Guard Colonel, currently serving as mayor of Emmett, Idaho. The voters elected Gordon outright as mayor in November 2015 for a four-year term and re-elected him in 2019. Born and raised in Lewiston, Idaho, Gordon graduated from Idaho State University in 1971, and then spent two years on active duty with the US Army as a commissioned officer. Leaving the Army in 1973, he entered the University of Idaho School of Law, graduating with a Juris Doctor in 1976. The voters of Nez Perce County elected Gordon the Nez Perce County Prosecutor in November of the same year and for two successive two-terms. He entered private practice in Lewiston in 1983. Gordon became the first lawyer magistrate in Gem County in 1989. While a member of the Idaho Army National Guard, he deployed to Iraq in 2004 (Operation Iraqi Freedom III). Upon his release from active duty, interim-governor Jim Risch appointed Gordon a district judge in Canyon County in July 2006. Gordon continued his affiliation with the Idaho National Guard until January 2008, when he retired a full-Colonel. He retired from the bench in January 2009. Gordon has been married to the former Patrice Turner of Boise, Idaho, for 54 years as of January 25, 2023. They have 3 adult children (a family physician, a resort manager, and a physician’s assistant) and 8 grandchildren ranging from twenty-one years to 9 months. Gordon has also served as the Department of Idaho Judge Advocate for the State of Idaho Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States since 2015, as the chair of his church council. As an elected Prosecutor in Nez Perce County, Gordon served in every organizational-elected office of the Idaho Prosecuting Attorney’s Association from Treasurer to President. While practicing law privately in Lewiston, Idaho, Gordon served on the Board of the American Cancer Society for the State of Idaho for two years.