Boisfeuillet Jones Jr.

Publisher and Chief Executive Officer, The Washington Post

Jones joined The Post in 1980 as vice president and counsel. In 1995 he became president and general manager of The Post, assuming responsibility for the business side of the newspaper. In January 2000 he was named associate publisher, assuming responsibility of The Post on a day-to-day basis. In September 2000 he succeeded Donald Graham as publisher and chief executive officer.

Jones is a director of the Associated Press, Newspaper Association of America, the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, the Federal City Council, and several Post affiliates.

Prior to joining The Post, Jones was an attorney with Hill & Barlow in Boston, Mass., from 1975 to 1980, and was law clerk for the Honorable Levin H. Campbell, U.S. Court of Appeals for First Circuit, from 1974 to 1975.

Born in Atlanta, Ga., Jones received an AB in 1968 from Harvard College, where he was president of The Harvard Crimson. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and received a D.Phil in Modern History. He received his law degree in 1974 from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

He lives in the District of Columbia with his wife, Barbara. They have two children.

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