PERSONAL:

Date of Birth: July 22, 1954 Family: Married to Lyn M. Simmons Son, Jerrauld C. C. Jones

GOVERNMENT SERVICE:

Member, Virginia House of Delegates, 89th District (elected 1987) Committee membership: Courts of Justice; Labor and Commerce; Corporations, Insurance and Banking; Chesapeake and Its Tributaries; Virginia Commission on Youth; Virginia Legislative Black Caucus, Chairman

EDUCATION:

Washington and Lee University school of Law
Lexington, Virginia
J. D. Degree warded June, 1980

Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey
B. A. Degree, cum laude, June, 1976

Virginia Episcopal School
Lynchburg, Virginia
Graduated with honors, 1972

SPECIAL HONORS:

Recipient of the Anne C. Stouffer Foundation, four years, all expenses paid, academic scholarship to attend Virginia Episcopal School ;First Black law clerk to the Supreme Court of Virginia (1980-81); Outstanding Young Man of America (1982); Who's Who in the South and Southwest (1988) ACYPL U. S. Delegation Chairperson for the Soviet/American Exchange (1988); Who's Who in America, 1994

PRESENT EMPLOYMENT:

Partner, Jones , Shelton & Malone, P.C.
500 East Main Street Suite 1218 Norfolk, Virginia 23510
December 1999 to present

Founded the law firm Jones and Carlson
Attorneys and counselors at Law
125 St. Paul's Boulevard
Suite 300
Norfolk, Virginia 23510
May 1983 to December 1999

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

Virginia State Bar; Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar Association; American Bar Association; National Bar Association; South Hampton Roads Bar Association; Old Dominion Bar Association; American Trial Lawyers Association; Virginia Trial Lawyers Association

POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS:

Member, Democratic Party of Virginia, State Central Committee; American Council of Young Political Leaders; National Conference of Black Legislators; Virginia Association of Black Elected Officials; Global Leaders of the South; Southern Legislative Conference; Who's Who in American Politics; Who's Who in the South and Southwest; Who's Who in America

CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS:

City of Norfolk Industrial Development Authority (Past member); City of Norfolk Commission of Parks and Recreation (Past member); City of Norfolk Democratic Committee (Past Vice President); National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Life Member)

OTHER CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS:

Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity; Association of Black Princeton Alumni; The Richmond Jazz Society; Hiawatha Social and Beneficial Association (President); Princeton Club of Hampton Roads

BOARD MEMBERSHIPS:

Friends of the Norfolk Juvenile Court ; Sentara Hospitals, 1983 to present; Norfolk Marine Institute; The Bertha Snyder Children's Camp Fund; Olde Muntersville Development Corporation, 1988 to present; Festevents; Big Brothors/Big Sisters; Planning Council of Hampton Roads

SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS:

Appointed by the Governor to the General Assembly Joint Taskforce on Marital Rape (1985); Appointed by the Attorney General to the Special Taskforce on Drug Enforcement Initiatives (CADRE) (1986); Task Force on Serious Juvenile Crime; Appointed by governor to Commission on Travel and Tourism (1994); Appointed by governor to Commission on Environmental Stewardship (1995); Appointed by the President to White House Conference on Youth, Drug Abuse, and Crime.

SPECIAL HONOR:

National Conference of Christians and Jews Humanitarian Award (1997)

RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION:

Grace Episcopal Church