Alan Gordon

Alan Gordon is the Republican nominee for Rhode Island attorney general. He is not a lawyer; he holds a self-designed bachelor's degree and an LL.B. from the University of Buckingham in England, and co-leads The Healing Church, which uses cannabis in religious services. He ran for attorney general in 2018 as the Compassion Party nominee. His platform centers on constitutional rights, public corruption and applying one standard of justice to all; he describes himself as a longtime cannabis activist.[1][2][3]

Gordon earned a self-designed Bachelor of Arts at Penn State in 1992, focused on the legal and public-policy questions surrounding cannabis reform, and an honors LL.B. from the University of Buckingham in England in 2012, according to his campaign biography.[1] The same biography says he passed the England and Wales bar examinations, and that he chose not to seek admission to the Rhode Island Bar.[1] He is not a lawyer, NBC 10 reported.[3]

Since 2014, Gordon says, he has provided private ecclesiastical legal guidance to several Christian church organizations, including service as legal advisor to a bishop of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church from 2014 to 2022 and to the matriarch of the Hebrew Catholic Church.[1] He and Anne Armstrong, a one-time gubernatorial candidate, lead the Healing Church; in 2015 they sought to smoke cannabis as part of a religious ceremony at Roger Williams Park.[3] In 2018 Gordon was the Compassion Party's nominee for attorney general.[3][4]

In the 2026 campaign, Gordon opposes Rhode Island's bans on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines, telling NBC 10 that courts will have to look at them as restrictions on the right to bear arms.[3] He is anti-abortion but told the station he would not try to change the state law codifying abortion rights.[3] His campaign site lists defending constitutional rights, protecting vulnerable people, confronting public corruption and applying one standard of justice among its priorities.[2]

Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21.