Dionne "Dee" M. Jones, JD, PhD | Pivoting In Your Law Career and Preparing to Become a Judge

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Dionne "Dee" M. Jones, JD, PhD | Pivoting In Your Law Career and Preparing to Become a Judge

Journey to Esquire®️ The Podcast

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Dionne "Dee" M. Jones, JD, PhD | Pivoting In Your Law Career and Preparing to Become a Judge

In this episode, we pass the mic to Dee Jones to discuss pivoting during your law career and preparing to become a judge. Dionne "Dee" M. Jones is the daughter of Command Sergeant Major (Ret.) Levester Jones, Sr. and the late Liza Dudley Jones. She is an alumna of the University of Florida, having earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a minor in education. Following her passion for advocacy and the law, Dionne earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where she was a Council on Legal Education Opportunity Fellow. Dionne has been an attorney for 28 years, having practiced both civil and criminal law and tried a plethora of cases to verdict. Within the civil domain, she has handled auto liability as well as workers’ compensation cases as well as family law and employment law cases. Under the criminal law umbrella, Dionne has provided oversight for dependency law cases and was a felony-level prosecutor for several years, where she served focused on domestic violence, aggravated battery and aggravated assault cases. Dionne earned a PhD in Higher Education Leadership in 2013. Upon graduation, she served as an Assistant Professor, the Co-Director of the Law and Medicine Scholarly Concentration, as well as the Co-Director of the Coaching program at the College of Medicine. Her research agenda centered upon physician leadership as well as the intersectionality of law and medicine. Currently, Dionne is a senior trial attorney for Allstate Insurance Company and simultaneously serves in a quasi-judicial role as a Hearing Officer for Hillsborough County. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her daughters, Lauren and Kaitlyn, who are full-time students at the University of Miami School of Law and Georgetown University Law School, respectively. Fun fact: Dee appreciates traveling and the culinary arts.
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