Kimberly Jones was the Director of Innovative Inclusion for the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office. In this role, she worked with her colleagues to constantly evolve a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice across the organization. She is a Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory.

For the 2022-2023 academic year, she served as a Fulbright Lecturer at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, in the Law Department. Her courses included U.S. Constitutional Law, Law & Politics in an International Society, U.S. Family Law, and Law in Everyday Life. Previously she served as full-time faculty member at Washtenaw Community College for almost twenty years. During her tenure, she taught courses in three departments: Academic Skills, English, and Criminal Justice. In addition, she helped create the Paralegal/Pre-Law program there while also serving as advisor of the Pre-Law Club. She also served a short time as Interim Dean of the Arts & Sciences Division at WCC. She is now Emeritus Faculty.

In addition to her teaching and administrative work, she founded a non-profit law firm, Collaborative Legal Services. In this capacity, she helped low-income and indigent clients in need of legal counsel. The firm also provided community legal education. She was also a Michigan Assigned Appellate Counsel Roster Attorney. In that capacity, she won a pivotal appeal against a law enforcement agency that violated a client’s civil rights. She wound down her practice upon beginning her work with the Sheriff’s Office.

Because she has a deep commitment to serving the community, she serves on the Board of Directors of several nonprofit organizations: the Michigan Center for Civic Education, Women and Men Working for Change, and Stopping Acts of Violence for Everyone.