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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Neal "Buddy" Jones

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Neal "Buddy" Jones, born 1951, is a former Hill County prosecutor and state representative who, with Bill Miller, co-founded and still operates a successful lobby practice, Hillco Partners, in Austin.

Jones, D-Hillsboro, was elected Hill County Attorney, then district attorney, and then won a term in the Texas House in 1981. He served one term there. After losing a 1982 state Senate race to Chet Edwards (now a U.S. Congressman from Waco), he became executive assistant to then-Speaker Gib Lewis, D-Fort Worth. His lobbying career began after that.

He earned his undergraduate and law degrees at Baylor University in Waco, and joined that institution's board of regents in 2004.

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