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Nathaniel Raphael Jones

Prior offices:

United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit

Years in office: 1995 - 2002

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Years in office: 1979 - 1995

Personal

Birthplace

Youngstown, OH

Nathaniel Raphael Jones (1926-2020) was afederal judge for theUnited States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.

Jones was nominated to the Sixth Circuit by PresidentJimmy Carter (D) on August 28, 1979, to a seat vacated byJohn Peck II; he was confirmed by the Senate on October 4, 1979, and received commissionthe next day. He assumedsenior status onMay 13, 1995, and retired onMarch 30, 2002.^[1]

Education

• Youngstown State University, A.B., 1951
• Youngstown State University,LL.B, 1955^[1]

Professional career

• U.S. Army Air Corps, 1945-1946
• Editor, Buckeye Review, 1956
• Executive Director, Fair Employment Practices Commission, Youngstown,Ohio, 1956-1959
• Private practice, Youngstown,Ohio, 1959-1961
• Assistant U.S. attorney, 1961-1967
• Assistant general counsel, National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, 1967-1968
• Private practice, Youngstown,Ohio, 1968-1969
• General counsel, NAACP, 1969-1979^[1]

External links

• The Youngstown Vindicator, "Retired judge to be honored," April 11, 2011

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges who have served theU.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Active judges	Chief Judge: Jeffrey Sutton  •  Raymond Kethledge  •  Amul Thapar  •  Eric Clay  •  Richard Griffin  •  Karen Moore  •  Joan Larsen  •  Stephanie Dawkins Davis  •  John K. Bush  •  John Nalbandian  •  Eric Murphy  •  Chad Readler  •  Andre Mathis  •  Rachel Bloomekatz  •  Kevin Ritz
Senior judges	Helene White  •  Alice Batchelder  •  Ralph Guy  •  James L. Ryan  •  Alan Norris  •  Richard Suhrheinrich  •  Martha Daughtrey  •  David McKeague  •  Deborah Cook  •  Julia Gibbons  •  John M. Rogers (Sixth Circuit)  •  Ronald Gilman  •  Danny Boggs  •  R. Guy Cole  •  Eugene Siler  •  Jane Stranch  •
Former judges	Damon Keith  •  Bernice Donald  •  Gilbert Merritt  •  Cornelia Kennedy  •  Boyce Martin  •  Julian William Mack  •  Harry Wellford  •  Robert Krupansky  •  Leroy Contie  •  Herbert Milburn  •  Albert Engel  •  Pierce Lively  •  Halmer Hull Emmons  •  John Baxter  •  William E. Miller  •  Howell Edmunds Jackson  •  William Howard Taft  •  Horace Harmon Lurton  •  Henry Franklin Severens  •  William Rufus Day  •  Loyal Edwin Knappen  •  John Kelvey Richards  •  Arthur Carter Denison  •  John Wesley Warrington  •  Maurice Donahue  •  John Weld Peck  •  Smith Hickenlooper  •  Xenophon Hicks  •  Charles Casper Simons  •  Charles Harwood Moorman  •  Florence Ellinwood Allen  •  Elwood Hamilton  •  John Donelson Martin (Federal appeals court judge)  •  Herschel Arant  •  Shackelford Miller  •  Wade Hampton McCree, Jr.  •  Henry Brooks  •  Clifford O'Sullivan  •  Paul Weick  •  Lester Cecil  •  John Peck II  •  Bailey Brown  •  Anthony Celebrezze  •  Bertram Combs  •  George Edwards (Sixth Circuit)  •  Thomas McAllister  •  Nathaniel Jones (federal judge)  •  Susan Neilson  •  Harry Phillips  •  David Aldrich Nelson  •
Former Chief judges	Alice Batchelder  •  Gilbert Merritt  •  Boyce Martin  •  Danny Boggs  •  Albert Engel  •  Pierce Lively  •  R. Guy Cole  •  Xenophon Hicks  •  Charles Casper Simons  •  Florence Ellinwood Allen  •  John Donelson Martin (Federal appeals court judge)  •  Shackelford Miller  •  Paul Weick  •  Lester Cecil  •  George Edwards (Sixth Circuit)  •  Thomas McAllister  •  Harry Phillips  •

v • e Federal judges nominated byJimmy Carter
1977	Ballantine •Bownes •Boyle •Bua •Carr •Clark •Cowan •Daly •Filippine •Higginbotham •Hoeveler •Hug •Johnstone •Kane •Keith •Leval •Logan •MacLaughlin •McKay •Melton •Merritt •Murphy •Nickerson •Oberdorfer •Roszkowski •Roy •Rubin •Sifton •Tang •Vance •Veron
1978	Arnold •Baker •Boyle •Burns •Campos •Claiborne •Collins •Cook •Devine •Diamond •Duplantier •Edenfield •Friedman •Gonzalez •Greene •Jenkins •Lowe •Mazzone •McMillian •O'Brien •Pfaelzer •Phillips •Pollak •Sand •Shapiro •Simmons •Smith •Sweet •Tanner •Wiseman •Ziegler
1979	Ackerman •Alarcon •Anderson •Arceneaux •Arnold •Aspen •Beatty •Beer •Belew •Bertelsman •Bilby •N. Black •S. Black •Bloch •Bowen •Brett •Brooks •Brown •Buchmeyer •Bunton •Burciaga •Cabranes •Carr •Carrigan •Castagna •Cire •Clark •Cohn •Conaboy •Cordova •Crabb •Cudahy •Davis •DeAnda •Debevoise •Edwards •Eginton •Ellison •Enslen •O. Evans •T. Evans •Farris •Ferguson •Fletcher •Frye •Garcia •Garza •B. Gibson •H. Gibson •Gierbolini-Ortiz •Giles •Gilliam •Green •Hall •Hastings •Hatchett •Hatfield •Hatter •Hawkins •Henderson •Higby •Hillman •Houck •Howard •Hudspeth •Hungate •F. Johnson •S. Johnson •N. Jones •S. Jones •Karlton •Kazen •Kearse •Keeton •Kehoe •Kennedy •Kidd •King •Kravitch •Loughlin •Martin •McCurn •McDonald •McNaught •McNichols •Mikva •Mitchell •Moran •Murnaghan •Murphy •D. Nelson •D.W. Nelson •Newblatt •Newman •Overton •Paine •Panner •J. Parker •R. Parker •Penn •Perez-Gimenez •Perry •Politz •Poole •Porter •Pregerson •Price •Rambo •Ramirez •Reavley •Redden •E. Reed •S. Reed •Reinhardt •Renner •Robinson •Rothstein •Sachs •Saffels •Sanders •Sarokin •Schroeder •Schwartz •Seay •Senter •Seymour •Shannon •Shaw •Shoob •Skopil •Sloviter •Sofaer •Spellman •Sprouse •Staker •Tate •Taylor •Thompson •Tidwell •Unthank •Vietor •Vining •Wald •Ward •Weinshienk •West •Wicker •Williams •Winder •Woods •Wright • Zobel
1980	Aguilar •Aldrich •Anderson •Boochever •Breyer •Britt •Cahill •Canby •Carroll •Cerezo •Clemon •S. Ervin •R. Erwin •Getzendanner •Gilmore •Ginsburg •Haltom •Hardy •Henderson •Hobbs •Holschuh •Horton •Howard •Johnson •Keep •Kelly •Kenyon •Kocoras •Marquez •Marshall •Michael •Nixon •Norris •Patel •Polozola •Propst •Quackenbush •Ramsey •Rice •Shadur •Spiegel •Tashima •Thompson •Vela •White •Williams
1981	Heen