Robert Clive Jones

Who is Robert Clive Jones?

Robert Clive Jones is a federal District Court Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. He served as Chief Judge from 2011-2014.

Jones was born in Las Vegas. He graduated from Brigham Young University where he majored in English, accounting and economics in 1971. He then became a CPA. Jones attended UCLA Law School where he was an editor of the Law Review.

From 1983-1999 Jones served as a bankruptcy judge. His wife is Michele Bunker.

Jones is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and has served in several positions in the church including bishop. He was a missionary in Japan from 1966 to 1969.

Jones was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a U.S. District Court judge for the District of Nevada in December 2003 after being nominated by President George W. Bush.

In August 2012, Jones held that Nevada's election law giving voters the ability to select "None of the above" was unconstitutional. He was overruled by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on September 4. One member of that panel, Judge Stephen Reinhardt, criticized Jones' handling of the case: "His dilatory tactics appear to serve no purpose other than to seek to prevent the state from taking an appeal of his decision before it print the ballots.... Such arrogance and assumption of power by one individual is not acceptable in our judicial system."