Who is Dean Harrison Gordon from Deal Breaker and what is their importance?

Harrison Gordon is the Dean of Students at Reston University. When Kathy Culver was a student at Reston, she worked in Dean Gordon's office. Gordon has a "handsome face and clear brown eyes." He wears tortoiseshell glasses and his hair is cut conservatively. Dean Gordon has gentle facial features, "as though the bones had been rounded off to soften his appearance" (pg. 243.) Myron thinks Dean Gordon looks "kind and trustworthy" (243).