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Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, who “She loved Cleveland and her
now serves in Jones’ seat as representative community,” Fudge said. “She was always
for the 11 Congressional District, worked happy to serve and found it a privilege to
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alongside Jones during much of her serve the people of Northeast Ohio.”
political career. Their paths first crossed Jones’ remarkable career and dedicated
when they were sorority sisters in Delta public service was cut short in August 2008
Sigma Theta, and they later became close when she died unexpectedly of a brain
personal friends when Fudge worked as a aneurism. Yet she remains a well-loved
clerk while Jones was on the bench. When figure in the Cleveland area. Buildings
Jones was elected county prosecutor, on both the Cleveland Clinic and Case
Fudge worked as a member of her staff, Western campuses bear her name, serving
and she later became Jones’ first chief-of- as reminders of her devotion to Northeast
staff in Washington. Ohio. Her legacy as a compassionate
Jones’ legal and legislative and well-loved advocate for the greater
accomplishments, Fudge said, were Cleveland community lives on not only
outstanding. Her political savviness through the facilities that bear her name,
accompanied by her drive to succeed made but through her inspiring story that reflects OVER 25 YEARS OF
her connections that helped her reach the power of her trailblazing spirit. PERSONAL INJURY,
places no other African-American woman MEDICAL MALPRACTICE,
had been before.
“She was effervescent,” Fudge said. “Just Alexis Eichelberger is a senior in the E.W. AND AUTO / TRUCKING
a force of nature. When she walked in a Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. CASES
room, you knew she was in it.” She also works as a freelance journalist for The
But Jones was more than a politically- Review in Alliance, Ohio, and is the culture
gifted public official. She was a wonderful section editor of the independent student 216.223.7535
wife, mother, and friend to many, and she publication The Post. She can be reached at ROBENALTLAW.COM
did her best always to serve her constituents. ae595714@ohio.edu.

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