Kelvin D. Jones
Circuit Court Judge
Year Elected/Appointed
2014
Prior Judicial Experience
General Sessions Court Magistrate - Davidson County
Previous Employment
- Corporate/Securities litigation attorney with the law firm of Holme Roberts and Owen, LLC in Denver, Colorado (1993-1996)
- Adjunct professor of Law & Ethics at the Metropolitan State College of Denver (1995-1997)
- Attorney with the law firm of Bass, Berry and Sims in Nashville, Tennessee (1997-1999)
- Legal advisor to Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell (1999-2001)
- Deputy Director of the Mayor’s Office of Economic & Community Development (2002)
- Director of the Metropolitan Nashville Transportation Licensing Commission (2003)
- Executive Director of the Metro Human Relations Commission - Nashville, Tennessee (2004-2010)
- Founder, The Kelvin Jones Law Group, Nashville, Tennessee (2010-2014)
Education
B.A. - Howard University, 1989
J.D. - University of Alabama, 1993
LLM - Duke University School of Law, 2020
Honors
- YMCA of Middle Tennessee - Volunteer of the Year
- Youth About Business -Volunteer of the Year
- Fellow, Tennessee, Nashville & Napier-Looby Bar Foundations
- Nashville Sportsman’s Club - Sportsman of the Year
- J.U.M.P, Community Service Award Recipient
Membership(s)
- American Bar Association- Past Chair, Judicial Division, Ethics & Professionalism
- Tennessee Bar Association- Alumnus of Leadership Law Program
- Leadership Nashville & Leadership Coffee County Alumnus
- Nashville Bar Association—Past Board & Executive Committee Member
- Rotary Club of Nashville--Member
- Lawyers’ Association for Women—Past Board Member
- Napier-Looby Bar Association—Past President
- Nashville Sportsman’s Club—Past President
- Belmont College of Law Inn of Court—Past Counselor
- Madison Kiwanis Club—Past Board Member
Community Involvement
- Tennessee Achieves/Tennessee Promise Student Mentor
- Men of Valor Prison Ministries—Mentor
- Boy Scouts of Middle Tennessee—Board Member
- Alive Hospice—Past Board Member
- Nashville Area Red Cross—Past Board Member
- Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence—Past Board Member
- United Way of Middle Tennessee—Past Board Member
- Girl Scouts of Cumberland Valley—Past Board Member
- Preston Taylor Ministries—Past Board Member
- Youth About Business/ Nashville Summer Business Camp—Past Board Member
- Tennessee Alcohol and Drug Council—Past Board Member
- West Nashville Sports League—Past Coaching Volunteer
- Nashville RBI —Past Coaching Volunteer
- Historic Edgefield Neighborhood Association—Past Board Member
Contact Info
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615-880-2591 (P)
Address
One Public Square, Suite 604 Nashville, TN 37201