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16 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine S tar Jones is an internationally acclaimed attorney, television personality, author and philanthropist who is renowned for her nearly 30-year career as a commanding media, business and legal thought leader. Ms. Jones worked in television (NBC News, The Today Show, Dateline NBC, ABC News, E! Entertainment Television, Court TV, CNN, Fox Business, CNBC, MSNBC, BET) as a host, journalist, commentator and/or producer, offering fresh perspectives to today’s most discussed crime and justice, political and sociological issues from the worlds of news, entertainment, politics and pop culture. She is best known to television viewers for her candor, confidence and uncanny ability to clarify muddy legal and social issues. A co-host of ABC’s “The View” for nine years, her knowledge of the law and talent for television has won her critical acclaim as a news and legal journalist, television host and social commentator. Alongside her View colleagues, Ms. Jones is a 2017 inductee into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame. Utilizing her legal acumen and business savvy, Ms. Jones has been the president and a board of directors member of the Professional Diversity Network for the last seven years. She has been among a small group of African-American women that has helped to lead a publicly traded company in the U.S. At the inception of her career in 1986, Ms. Jones served as a prosecutor with the Kings County District Attorney’s Office, drawing upon her JD from the University of Houston Law Center. In STAR JONES ATTORNEY, ADVOCATE, MEDIA PERSONALITY Chicago, IL ARTS, MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT 1990, she was promoted to senior assistant district attorney and amassed a 98% conviction rate – still the best in the state 30 years later. In 1992, Ms. Jones was picked to be the youngest ever network legal correspondent for NBC’s “Today” and “NBC Nightly News.” Over the next five years, she led a varietyofmajor network coverageof all theU.S. high profile trials: the Menendez murder trials, the Mike Tyson rape trial, the Rodney King civil rights trials, the Susan Smith murder trial and the “trial of the century,” the O.J. Simpson murder, civil and child custody trials, where she was the only reporter to interview Simpson during the civil litigation. Provided with her own court show, “Jones and Jury,” in1994, shebecame thefirst African-American individual and female to serve as a television arbitrator of a courtroomseries. A best-selling author, Ms. Jones wrote “You Have toStand for Something, orYou’ll Fall for Anything” in 1998 and “Shine: APhysical, Emotional and Spiritual Journey to Finding Love” in 2006. In 2011, she published “Satan’s Sisters,” which was then made intoa televisionseriesonVH1 titled “DaytimeDivas.” Ms. Jones is a dedicated philanthropist who is a heart disease survivor and serves as the face of the American Heart Association’s “Go Red for Women” efforts. A prolific interviewer who has interviewed everyone from presidents to pop stars, captains of industry and celebrity superstars, Ms. Jones is proud to partner with Marquis Who’s Who to provide distinguished listees with exclusive “Star Treatment” video biographies and comprehensive, one-on-one interviews. These enhanced videos are only available toMarquis listees.