Doug Jones, counsel for ArentFox Schiff, represented Alabama in the Senate from 2018 to 2021. He is a contributor for CNN, a distinguished senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and a fellow at the Institute of Politics and Public Service at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. After graduating from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, Jones worked as staff counsel to the US Senate Judiciary Committee for Senator Howell Heflin (D-Ala.), and then served as an assistant US attorney from 1980 to 1984. He then joined a private law practice in Birmingham, Alabama, until President Bill Clinton nominated him to be US Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, a position he held from 1997 to 2001. Jones successfully prosecuted two of the four men responsible for the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, events that he chronicled in Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights.