Circuit Judge
Mark Jones
Honors:
New York State Regents Scholarship
PTA Academic Award as male student with highest grade point average in graduating class of 536
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.: BA, June, 1975: English Major - Honors - Cum Laude with Distinction in major
State University in New York at Buffalo, Faculty of Law and Jurisprudence, Amherst, NY, Juris Doctor, June 1979 - Class Standing: Graduated in upper 20% of class. LSAT score: 718
August 1979 to September 1979 - Naval Reserve Officer on temporary active duty as a law clerk at the Naval Appellate Review Activity, Government Division, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C.
April 1980 to September 1984 Attorney on active duty in the U.S. Navy (Lieutenant, Judge Advocate General Corps.) serving as Assistant Officer in Charge, Naval Legal Service Office Detachment, Naval Air Station, Key West, FL.
November 1984 to December 1986 and January 1988 to April 1988 and April 1990 to June 1990 - Associate Attorney with Morgan and Hendrick, P.A., Key West, FL
July 1988 to March 1990 and July 1990 to July 1996 - Assistant Public Defender with the Office of the Public Defender for the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit, Key West, FL
January 1997 to Present - Circuit Court Judge, Sixteenth Judicial Circuit Key West, FL
Chief Judge July 1, 1999 to June 30, 2001
Recipient of the Naval Humanitarian Service Medal
Member of Board of Directors "Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Monroe County" 1997- 2002
Member of Sunrise Rotary
Member of American Legion
Member of Shared Services Network Executive Roundtable
Member of Board of Directors of Key West Fishing Tournament
U.S. Coast Guard licensed charter boat captain