Mr. James S. Jones was appointed as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Resolution Management on December 17, 2000.

Mr. Jones has served in the following positions:

• Deputy Chief Network Officer in the Veterans Health Administration from December 5, 1999 to December 16, 2000.

• Medical Center Director of VAMC Danville, IL  from June 12, 1994 to December 4, 1999.

• Associate Director of Edward Hines, Jr. Hospital from April 7, 1991 to June 11, 1994.

• Assistant Director as well as an Associate Director trainee of Hines from January 1987 to April 6, 1991.

• Health System Specialist at VAMC Washington, DC from September 1980 to December 1986.

• Mr. Jones started his career in the VA as a Management Analyst Trainee at the Chicago West Side VA Hospital on November 17, 1975.

He is a 1975 graduate of the University of Missouri’s Graduate Program in Health Services Management where he earned his MBA/MHA. Mr. Jones received his B.S. from Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri (1968); served 2 years in the U.S. Army; worked two and one-half years for the McDonnell Douglas Corporation in St. Louis, Missouri; and six months for S.S. Kresge & Company in Chicago, IL.

January 2001