19 Facts About Edith Jones

Edith Hollan Jones was born on April 7,1949 and is a United States circuit judge and the former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Edith Jones was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 3,1985, and received commission on April 4,1985.

Edith Jones served as chief judge of the Fifth Circuit from 2006 to 2012.

Edith Jones received her Juris Doctor from University of Texas School of Law in 1974, where she was a member of the Texas Law Review.

Edith Jones served as general counsel for the Republican Party of Texas from 1982 to 1983.

Edith Jones was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on February 27,1985, to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, to a new seat authorized by 98 Stat.

Edith Jones was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 3,1985, and received commission on April 4,1985, at the age of 35.

Edith Jones served as chief judge from January 16,2006, to October 1,2012, succeeding Carolyn Dineen King.

Edith Jones sits on the board of directors of the Boy Scouts of America and the Garland Walker American Inns of Court.

In 2010, Edith Jones visited Iraq as part of the US State Department's Rule of Law program, where she advised and encouraged Iraqi and Kurdish judges.

Edith Jones has been mentioned frequently as being on the list of potential nominees to the Supreme Court of the United States.

In 2006, Edith Jones found that a death row inmate who had filed a pro se motion to drop his appeal while his attorney was abroad could not later reinstate his appeal.

In May 2018, Edith Jones wrote for the court when it found that Texas Senate Bill 4, which prohibits local governments or public employees from "endorsing" sanctuary city policies, did not violate the First Amendment.

Edith Jones joined the Fifth Circuit in rejecting the petition on procedural grounds, but she took the unusual step of handing down a six-page concurrence to the judgment of the court.

Edith Jones quoted Justice Byron White's dissent in the latter that described the Supreme Court's decision as an "exercise of raw judicial power".

Edith Jones dissented when the 5th Circuit denied en banc in a case regarding what constitutes a 'seaman'.

The majority ruled that liftboat workers are not exempt from overtime pay, and Jones accused the majority of flouting Encino Motorcars v Navarro.

In part because Edith Jones had recently served as the chief judge of the Fifth Circuit, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts, in his administrative capacity, transferred the complaints to the judicial ethics panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Edith Jones stated that the refusal of the circuit to transfer the case to another circuit for review, and to instead to have the same judges act as "prosecutors, judges, jurors and witnesses", as "inexplicable".