How to implement sorting on a list of dynamic strings with Name and Value

I gave my best shot at a title for this question, but hopefully the explanation will be enough.

Right now I have an object that gets populated for a dynamically created table. This object looks like this:

public class RowData
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Value { get; set; }

    public RowData(string name, string value)
    {
        Name = name;
        Value = value;
    }
}

I have a List<List<RowData>> that I pass back to my front end and get populated in a table. The idea being that it is a list of rows and then a list of each rows column data.

I am looking to implement a way to sort the data by the column selected in my table. My initial thought was that I would be able to achieve something like this by using reflection on the name property and then sorting by its corresponding value property.

However, I am seem to be stumped... and perhaps need to think about a better way to implement this.

Lets say I have data like so added into my List<List<RowData>> rowData = new List<List<RowData>>();:

var col1 = new RowData() { Name = "Col1", Value = "123"};
var col2 = new RowData() { Name = "Col2", Value = "ABC" };
var col3 = new RowData() { Name = "Col3", Value = "Some Test" };

var col4 = new RowData() { Name = "Col1", Value = "456" };
var col5 = new RowData() { Name = "Col2", Value = "DEF" };
var col6 = new RowData() { Name = "Col3", Value = "Another Test" };

var row1 = new List<RowData>() { col1, col2, col3 };
var row2 = new List<RowData>() { col4, col5, col6 };

rowData.Add(row1);
rowData.Add(row2);

If I pass a string like Col1 how could a programmatically sort rowData by Value that are corresponds to Name that equals Col1? Or do I need to entirely rethink my process here?

If I passed the string of Col1 the anticipated outcome would be something like:

If I passed the string of Col3 the anticipated outcome would be something like:

To directly answer the question, you can sort the initial list like this:

string colName = "Col3";
rowData.Sort((rd1, rd2) => rd1.First(c => c.Name == colName).Value.CompareTo(rd2.First(c => c.Name == colName).Value));

Or you can leave the original list alone and created a new sorted list like this:

var sorted = rowData.OrderBy(rd => rd.First(c => c.Name == colName).Value)
    .ToList();

Depending on your use case you may want to consider using different data structures to represent your data. If you have a lot of columns, it might make sense to represent each row as a Dictionary for quick lookup by name. Or you might consider using the DataTable type directly, although that might be overkill--it's got a lot of handy features, but it's slower than many other options because it tries to do so many things.