Marshall P. Jones, Jr.
Deputy Director
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Marshall P. Jones, Jr. was named Deputy Director on October 20, 2000. He had been serving on a full time detail as the Service's Acting Deputy Director since May 2000. Jones replaces John G. Rogers who retired at that time. From January 22, 2001, to March 6, 2002, Jones served as Acting Director of the Interior Department's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In that interim period, he led the management and supervision of the agency's programs and staff nationwide. On March 6, 2002, Steven A. Williams was sworn in as Director of the Service.

As Deputy Director, Jones is responsible for ensuring that the agency successfully carries out its mission of conserving, protecting, and enhancing fish, wildlife, and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. In doing so, Jones will help the Director set the Service's priorities. He will work to promote the agency's mission and priorities throughout the United States and abroad by strengthening partnerships with other Federal agencies and foreign governments, States, Tribes, non-governmental agencies and the private sector. Jones will also assist the Director in ensuring agency accountability and customer service. In the Director's absence, the Deputy Director will assume those responsibilities on an acting basis.

Prior to his detail and subsequent appointment, Jones was the Service's Assistant Director for International Affairs. In this position, he served as a member of the Service Directorate and supervised the Service's international affairs program which, for FY 2000, has a base budget of $7.9 million, plus $2.4 million in grant funds for elephant, rhino, and tiger conservation programs. Jones has twice served as the deputy head of the U.S. Delegation to Conferences of the Parties of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), and as head of the U.S. Delegation to the Conference of the Parties of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance. He also guided U.S. involvement in several other bilateral and multilateral conservation efforts.

In previous positions with the Service, Jones served in Washington as Chief of the CITES Management Authority from 1988-94; as Acting Chief of the Division of Ecological Services in 1987; in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1980-87, as Chief of the Regional Endangered Species Division and before that as Comprehensive Planning specialist in that region's Division of Federal Aid; and as Acting Chief of the Endangered Species Division in the Denver Regional Office in 1978. He began his career as a biologist and technical writer in the Office of Endangered Species in Washington, D.C., in 1975.

Jones majored in zoology and English at the University of Michigan, received an M.S. in vertebrate ecology from Murray State University in Kentucky, and did additional graduate work at Cornell University. He served in the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1971.