Maurice Jones | |
Office1: | President and CEO of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation |
Term Start1: | 2016 |
Term End1: | 2020 |
Predecessor1: | Michael Rubinger |
Office2: | 16th Virginia Secretary of Commerce |
Governor2: | Terry McAuliffe |
Term Start2: | January 27, 2014 |
Term End2: | September 6, 2016 |
Predecessor2: | Jim Cheng |
Successor2: | Todd Haymore |
Office3: | 8th United States Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
President3: | Barack Obama |
Term Start3: | April 18, 2012[1] |
Term End3: | January 2014 |
Predecessor3: | Ron Sims |
Successor3: | Nani A. Coloretti |
Birth Name: | Maurice Antonia Jones |
Birth Date: | 14 September 1964 |
Birth Place: | Mecklenburg, Virginia, U.S. |
Party: | Democratic |
Spouse: | Lisa Smith |
Education: | Hampden-Sydney College (BA) St. John's College, Oxford (MPhil) University of Virginia (JD) |
Signature: | Maurice Jones signature.png |
Maurice Antonia Jones (born September 14, 1964) is the former CEO of OneTen http://www.oneten.org, a coalition of companies dedicated to creating one million jobs for African Americans by the end of the 2020s.[2] Prior to OneTen, he was president and CEO of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, a national community development financial institution.[3] Previously, he served as the Deputy Secretary of HUD in the Obama administration, and then as the Virginia Secretary of Commerce in the cabinet of Governor Terry McAuliffe.[4]
Jones was born in rural Mecklenburg County and grew up on his grandparents' tobacco farm near the town of Kenbridge.[5] He earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Hampden–Sydney College, where he graduated Omicron Delta Kappa, before attending St. John's College, Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship and the University of Virginia School of Law.[6]
In November 2020, Jones was named a candidate for United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Biden administration.[7]