Daryl D. Jones is serving his first term on the Anne Arundel County Council and proudly represents the area where he has lived and worked almost all of his life. A 1982 graduate of Andover High School in Linthicum, he attended the University of Maryland at Eastern Shore and University of Maryland at College Park and earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from the university in 1987. He is a 1992 graduate of the University of Baltimore School of Law, where he earned his Juris Doctor and was admitted to practice law in Maryland the same year. He has worked as an aide to former Congressman Tom McMillen from Anne Arundel County on Capitol Hill (1988-1989) and as a prosecutor in the Office of the Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney (1992-1996). He is a sole practitioner and has owned and operated his own law practice since 1996. He is also the owner of a tavern in Glen Burnie. Daryl has been active in a number of civic, community and political organizations. He was an elected member of the Anne Arundel County Democratic Central Committee for two terms (1990-1998) and served both as Chairman and Vice-Chairman. He currently serves on the Board of the Chesapeake Arts Center in Brooklyn Park and is active in Take Back Our Streets, a program to mentor at-risk youth in the community. Daryl has received the Humanitarian of the Year Award from the Anne Arundel County Bar Association for his assistance in reading programs for at risk youth in public schools and has been recognized by Swathmore’s Who’s Who in the Legal Profession. He has been honored by the American Council of Young Political Leaders, a national non-partisan leadership organization, for outstanding community political leadership and selected to represent the United States in a delegation to Israel. He is a member of the John Wesley United Methodist Church in Glen Burnie. He currently resides in Severn. |