Marjory Gordon (Cleveland, November 10, 1931 – Massachusetts, April 29, 2015)[1] was a nursing theorist and professor who created a nursing assessment theory known as Gordon's functional health patterns. Gordon served in 1973 as the first president of the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association[2] until 1988.[3] She was a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing beginning in 1977 and was designated a Living Legend by the same organization in 2009.[4]