Iris Jones is a business development strategist at one of the nation’s oldest international law offices. After earning a bachelor’s from BGSU, she earned a law degree from Texas Southern University. Her first job after law school was as an assistant attorney general of Texas in 1978. From there, she worked as the director of the law department for the City of Austin and then went into private practice.In 2007, she was named the chief business development and marketing officer at Chadbourne & Parker LLP in New York City.