Man with local ties tapped for top federal job
Luci WeldonThe Warren Record
Maurice Antonio Jones, son of
Milo M. Jones of Warrenton, has been nominated by President Barack Obama
for the position of deputy secretary of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development.
Jones is also the grandson of Ethel B. Harris, and the nephew of Annette Silver and Carolyn Neely, all of Warrenton.
A native of Virginia, he graduated from
Lunenburg High School and earned a bachelor of arts degree in political
science from Hampden-Sydney College, where he was class valedictorian.
Among his achievements were membership in the Phi Beta Kappa academic
honor society and receiving the Truman Scholarship.
In 1986, he
was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship, which allowed him to attend Oxford
University in England for three years. There, he received a master of
philosophy degree in international relations.
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Jones went on to attend the
University of Virginia School of Law, earning the juris doctor in 1992.
He and his wife and daughter currently reside in Norfolk, Va.
The president and publisher of The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Jones has worked at the federal and state levels of government.
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