Career
Jones burst onto the international athletics scene by winning the 120 yd (110 m) hurdles in 1958 Amateur Athletic Union championships. A year later, at the Rome Olympics he was third behind teammates Lee Calhoun and Willie May, after which many observers believed he had reached his peak performance. Jones also ran on a 4 × 100 m relay team that set a world record in 1961.
After retiring from competition, Jones became New York City"s director of recreation in 1967.
He has also worked in American Airlines and owned his own baggage check-in service at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. From January 2005 through March 2006, Jones served as the director of the Oakland County Department of Economic Development & Community Affairs.
Jones was on the primary ballot twice. The first to finish the term left vacant by Phillips, and second, to be the Democratic candidate for the full two-year term in the general election.
On July 1, 2007 Jones assumed the position of General Manager of Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation), the public transit operator serving suburban Detroit, Michigan.
