Jordan Zimmerman

Biography Zimmerman was born in Newark, New Jersey, the oldest of four siblings in a middle-class family. from Old Bridge Township, New Jersey, after Zimmerman graduated from Madison Township High School in 1975.

During his senior year in college, his college entered a national college competition to develop an advertising campaign for the National Institute on Drug Abuse; his team's "Just Say No" slogan won the competition and which was adopted by Nancy Reagan in her national campaign against drug use. After school, he returned to live with his parents in Sunrise, Florida and started his own agency.

Philanthropy and political activities With the Florida Governors appointment, Jordan Zimmerman served on the board of trustees at the University of South Florida, eventually becoming the chairman of the board, where he served for over 12 years. In 2015, he donated $10,000,000 to his alma mater, the University of South Florida where the Zimmerman School of Advertising and Mass Communications is named after him; and where he spearheaded a revamp of the university's Advertising program. Zimmerman is a registered Republican. In 2006 he hosted, in his Boca Raton estate, the sitting President of the United States of America, George W. Bush, for a small gathering of 25 couples, and in one night he raised $1,250,000. He is involved in the Palm Beach Jewish Federation, Take Stock In Children, and the Florence Fuller Child Development Center. who was raised Roman Catholic but converted to Judaism, the religion of her husband. Zimmerman has four children. His fourth wife is Terry Lee Zimmerman. He has homes in Boca Raton, Florida and Westhampton, New York. He is of Jewish descent.