Hon. Mark Jones

Mark Jones is a judge of the 16th Judicial Circuit Court in Monroe County, Florida. He was elected to the bench on November 5, 1996, and has served continuously, including a term as Chief Judge from July 1999 to June 2001. Prior to his judicial service, Jones began his legal career as a law clerk in the U.S. Navy in 1979, then served as an attorney in the Navy’s Judge Advocate General Corps until 1984. He also worked as an associate at the Key West firm Morgan and Hendrick, P.A., and served as an Assistant Public Defender for the 16th Judicial Circuit from 1988 to 1996. Jones earned a B.A. in English from Dartmouth College in 1975 and a J.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1979.