James K. (Jim) Gordon is a Canadian politician, who served as mayor of Sudbury, Ontario for seventeen years, and as the city's Member of Provincial Parliament for six years.

Gordon, who was born in Espanola, Ontario, served on that town's council in the 1960s before moving to Sudbury. He was elected to city council there in 1971, and became mayor in 1976. He served until 1981, and then ran in that year's provincial election as the Progressive Conservative candidate. He won that election and served until 1987, when he was defeated by Sterling Campbell in the Liberal sweep of David Peterson.

In 1991, Gordon ran again as mayor of Sudbury, and was re-elected. He served as the city's mayor until 2000, when the city and the Regional Municipality of Sudbury were amalgamated into the new city of Greater Sudbury. He ran for mayor of the new amalgamated city, and won that election as well.

Gordon's tenure as mayor of Sudbury was marked by efforts to diversify the city's mining-based economy. He was also, as the city's provincial representative in the early 1980s, a key supporter of the Science North project, which has since become the city's and Northern Ontario's most successful tourist attraction.

In Gordon's single term as mayor of the amalgamated Greater Sudbury, however, the city council was somewhat undermined by voter doubts about the effectiveness and the appropriateness of the amalgamation project. Gordon announced his retirement from politics in 2003, and in that fall's municipal election, he was succeeded by David Courtemanche.