Passing of Tommie Jones

Tommie Jean Clark Jones

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> After reading the e-mail that was sent to staff last week regarding the loss of Bob Hughes, Ken Bergeron informed me about the recent passing of another CRS alum, Tommie Jones. Here is a copy of the current Directors release to staff about Tommie Jones.

> Prior to Joining CRS as a Conciliator with the Midwest Region in 1974, Ms. Jones was a school teacher in Dayton, Ohio. Fittingly, she played a vital role in school desegregation cases that were prevalent at the time. She worked school desegregation cases in her hometown of Dayton, Cleveland, Detroit, and other cities. Ms. Jones also worked as a Senior Conciliation Specialist in the Central Region before being named Regional Director of the Northeast Region in 1982.
> During a recent conversation between Deputy Director Gilbert Moore and Jesse Taylor, the former director of the Midwest regional office, who knew her well, Taylor described Tommie as "energetic and supportive of CRS' mission." He went on to say , " she was very, very, aggressive and would not hesitate to go to the very top of a local government or law enforcement organization to make sure the decision-makers were a part of the mediation process..She was results oriented."
   Ms. Jones served as the Regional Director in New York for eight years until leaving the agency in 1990 to return to her first love, teaching science. She passed away on November 6th at her home in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

> Grande H. Lum
> Director
> Community Relations Service
> U.S. Department of Justice
> 600 E Street, NW, Suite 6000
> Washington, D.C. 20530
> http://www.justice.gov/crs/