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.