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Long before MINACT’s inception, Jones had an incessant desire to become a part of the solution to the problems of America’s disadvantaged. He began a career in Job Corps after leaving the Navy in 1966, taking his first employment with the Breckinridge Job Corps Center in Morganfield, Kentucky, now the Earle C. Clements Job Corps Center. Jones quickly moved through the Job Corps program from his entry-level position as resident adviser in Kentucky to serve in a center director position in Mississippi. His vision of starting his own company to continue services through Job Corps was realized in 1978 when he founded MINACT and successfully competed for his first Job Corps contract. Jones is a graduate in sociology from Indiana State University in Evansville, Indiana, and has done additional graduate studies in business administration at the University of Evansville. He is active in community organizations that promote the development of people. He serves on the boards of BancorpSouth Bank Community Board, Momentum Mississippi, the Children’s Health Forum, and the advisory board of the College of Business at Jackson State University. He was recently appointed by the Secretary of Labor to serve on the Federal Job Corps Advisory Committee, where he now serves as chairman. In May 2007, he was honored for his significant contributions to the growth and development of business in the state of Mississippi by his induction into the Mississippi Business Hall of Fame. | 