Leigh A. Jones, a proud native of Birmingham, has been the evening and weekend reference law librarian at the Lucille Stewart Beeson Law Library since May 2017. Currently, as an adjunct professor at Cumberland School of Law, she teaches Advanced Legal Research. Prior to arriving at Samford, Jones spent nine years at Tuskegee University,  where she held positions as head of government documents and as head of the engineering departmental library.

Jones received her law degree from the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University. Prior to attending law school, she received a fellowship from the Council of Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO), which allowed her to attend the CLEO pre-law institute at UDC David A. Clarke School of Law.  After attending law school,  she enrolled in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was awarded an Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Academy fellowship. As part of that fellowship, she completed a leadership institute in Washington, D.C. and served as an intern in the government documents department at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Davis Library, a regional federal depository library. 

Her interests include genealogy, information accessibility, and professional communication (specifically, technical writing).  In her spare time, Jones can be found roaming various walking and hiking trails. Also, she spends time completing various arts and crafts projects.