Civil rights agency
appoints Jones

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Star-Bulletin staff

Christopher Leon Jones Jr. has been appointed deputy executive director of the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission.

Jones fills the vacancy left by April Wilson-South, who has returned to private law practice.

Before taking office Monday, Jones had served as an investigator with the commission since 2001.

A graduate of the Howard University School of Law, he also has served as an attorney-adviser with the U.S. Department of Justice, practiced law in Washington D.C. with a private firm performing appellate work and employment discrimination and civil rights cases, and was a special assistant U.S. attorney as an Air Force officer.