Woodrow W. Jones

Who was Woodrow W. Jones?

Woodrow Wilson Jones was a United States Representative and a federal judge from North Carolina. He was born in Green Hill Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina and attended the public schools of Rutherford County. He graduated from Mars Hill College in Mars Hill, NC in 1934 and graduated from Wake Forest University Law School, Wake Forest, North Carolina, in 1937. After being admitted to the bar, Jones practiced law and served as city attorney for Rutherfordton from 1940 to 1943 and was a prosecuting attorney of Rutherford County, in the Recorder’s Court, from 1941 to 1943. After returning from three years in the United States Navy during World War II, he was elected as a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1946 and served two years.