Lunch with Past TRF Trustee Carolyn Jones

Carolyn, a small town girl from Tarrytown, New York, Carolyn Jones graduated from Stanford University with distinction and received her LL.B. from Yale Law School.  She was an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Alaska Attorney General’s Office for 23 years, and a supervising attorney in the office during the last seven years before her retirement in 1998.

Carolyn joined the Rotary Club of Anchorage East in 1987.  From 1997-1998, she was the governor of R.I. District 5010.  Her past Rotary activities include: President’s Representative to Districts in Italy, Canada, Slovakia and the USA; 2000 and 2005 International Training Leader; delegate to the 2001 and 2004 Councils of Legislation; service on a variety of RI committees; membership on the Northwest PETS Operations Committee; and 2003-2005 Rotary Regional Foundation Coordinator.  She was the chairperson of the 2004 Zone 22 Rotary Institute.  On 1 July 2005, Carolyn began a four-year term as a Trustee  on the Board of Directors of the Rotary Foundation.

In 1999 and 2000 she headed the Rotary committee that coordinated the U.S. Library of Congress-sponsored visits to the United States of emerging young Russian leaders.  She was  a member of the Khabarovsk-Alaska Rule of Law Steering Committee from 2001 to 2005.  She is the continual Yale Law School Class of 1966 Class Secretary and Reunion Chairperson.

She has received the Rotary “Service Above Self Award” and the Rotary Foundation “Citation For Meritorious Service,” as well as the Alaska Bar Association’s “Distinguished Service Award.”  In 2002, she was named over 149 other nominees as the “Volunteer of the Year” by the Russian Children’s Foundation – a nonprofit organization based in Moscow, Russia.

Carolyn has traveled to Russia 28 times in her service to Rotary – four of those visits as a Rotary Volunteer.  Her story “The Children of Russia” was published in the July 2002 issue of the Rotarian and in “Chicken Soup For The Volunteers’ Soul.”