Nathaniel R. Jones

Judge Nathaniel R. Jones is among the nation’s most respected jurists. After a long career as general counsel of the NAACP, he was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, from which he retired in 2002. Jones is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Lawyer, the 2006 Trailblazer Award from Just the Beginning Foundation, and the 2011 Charles Hamilton Houston Medallion of Merit from the Washington Bar Association. The author of Answering the Call: A Memoir of the Modern Struggle to End Racial Discrimination in America (The New Press), he lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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The Cincinnati Enquirer

Renowned lawyer, jurist, academic, public servant, and author of Answering the Call, Nathaniel R. Jones, is featured in an article in the The Cincinnati Enquirer

Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly calls Answering the Call "a forthright and revealing memoir...[a] careful and considered debut" in their review

Kirkus Reviews

Kirkus calls Answering the Call "a forthright testimony by a witness to history in their review

Books by Nathaniel R. Jones

Answering the Call
An Autobiography of the Modern Struggle to End Racial Discrimination in America

Nathaniel R. Jones