students, elected officials, higher education peers and opinion leaders." Personal life Gee has been married twice. His first wife was Elizabeth D. Gee, with whom he had one daughter, Rebekah Gee. Gee and his daughter were featured on an episode of the public radio show This American Life discussing life after Elizabeth's death. Gee divorced his second wife, Constance Bumgarner Gee, in 2007. During the summer of 2016, Gee became engaged to Laurie Erickson of the Erickson Foundation. Gee's daughter Rebekah was appointed Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals in 2016. In 2001, Gee received the Judge Elbert P. Tuttle Distinguished Achievement Award, the highest recognition of achievement in the Pi Kappa Alpha International fraternity. In 2012, Gee became the first Honorary Esteemed Member of the University of Colorado's Buff Bow Tie Bunch (BBTB). Gee has donated more than $10,000 to Democratic and Republican political campaigns since 2010. Gee served on the board of directors of L Brands. References 1944 births Living people American educational theorists Latter Day Saints from Utah American Mormon missionaries in Germany American Mormon missionaries in Italy Brigham Young University faculty Chancellors of Vanderbilt University Columbia Law School alumni People from Vernal, Utah Presidents of Brown University Presidents of Ohio State University Presidents of the University of Colorado System Teachers College, Columbia University alumni 20th-century Mormon missionaries University of Utah alumni Latter Day Saints from Ohio Presidents of West Virginia University Latter Day Saints from West Virginia Latter Day Saints from Colorado Latter Day Saints from Tennessee Latter Day Saints from Rhode Island