Starlet Marie Jones (born March 24, 1962) is an American lawyer,
journalist, television personality, fashion designer, author, and
women's and diversity advocate. She is best known as one of the
original co-hosts on the ABC morning talk show The View, on which she
appeared from 1997 to 2006. She was also one of sixteen contestants of
the fourth installment of The Celebrity Apprentice in 2011, coming in
fifth place.Jones was born in Badin, North Carolina and grew up in
Trenton, New Jersey with her mother, a human services administrator,
and her stepfather, a municipal security chief.Jones graduated from
Notre Dame High School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. She earned a B.A.
degree in Administration of Justice at American University, where she
was initiated into the Lambda Zeta chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha
sorority. Jones earned a J.D. degree from the University of Houston
Law Center in 1986, and was admitted to the New York state bar in
1987.From 1986 to 1991, Jones was a prosecutor with the Kings County
District Attorney's Office in Brooklyn, New York. In 1992, she was
elevated to senior assistant district attorney. She was recruited by
Court TV in 1991 as a commentator for the William Kennedy Smith rape
trial and spent several years as a legal correspondent for NBC's Today
and NBC Nightly News. In 1994, she was given her own court show, Jones
& Jury, which mimicked the arbitration-based reality format of The
People's Court, though with a talk show like set as opposed to a
courtroom set. Although the show was canceled after only one year,
Jones became the first black person and female to serve as a
television arbitrator of a courtroom series.
journalist, television personality, fashion designer, author, and
women's and diversity advocate. She is best known as one of the
original co-hosts on the ABC morning talk show The View, on which she
appeared from 1997 to 2006. She was also one of sixteen contestants of
the fourth installment of The Celebrity Apprentice in 2011, coming in
fifth place.Jones was born in Badin, North Carolina and grew up in
Trenton, New Jersey with her mother, a human services administrator,
and her stepfather, a municipal security chief.Jones graduated from
Notre Dame High School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. She earned a B.A.
degree in Administration of Justice at American University, where she
was initiated into the Lambda Zeta chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha
sorority. Jones earned a J.D. degree from the University of Houston
Law Center in 1986, and was admitted to the New York state bar in
1987.From 1986 to 1991, Jones was a prosecutor with the Kings County
District Attorney's Office in Brooklyn, New York. In 1992, she was
elevated to senior assistant district attorney. She was recruited by
Court TV in 1991 as a commentator for the William Kennedy Smith rape
trial and spent several years as a legal correspondent for NBC's Today
and NBC Nightly News. In 1994, she was given her own court show, Jones
& Jury, which mimicked the arbitration-based reality format of The
People's Court, though with a talk show like set as opposed to a
courtroom set. Although the show was canceled after only one year,
Jones became the first black person and female to serve as a
television arbitrator of a courtroom series.
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