Fond Memories From Princeton and Virginia

I met Jerrauld as a freshman in 1973 and have such fond memories of him. We reconnected when I moved to Virginia in 1989. As the director of the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice under Mark Warner, he called me out of the blue one day and encouraged me to serve on the Juvenile Justice Board. I told him I was not an expert and expressed reservations. But Jerrauld had a vision and such conviction to making a difference that I wanted to join his team. He convinced me that my areas of expertise in prevention and workforce development were needed. He also wanted to diversify the board and I became the first Latino gubernatorial appointee to ever serve. He led and guided his staff to focus on reentry efforts and together we were able to forge a partnership between Virginia's Juvenile Justice and Workforce Development systems.

Jerrauld was very close to his mother and was so very proud of his wife and son, Jay Jones, who inherited his amazing smile and passion for justice, and who recently became Virginia’s first elected African American attorney general. Sadly, Jerrauld did not get to swear him in, but I know he was with him in spirit and playing his trumpet.