Publisher and Director of Revenue Operations
Publisher and Director of Revenue Operations Tami Jones is 1995 graduate of Jackson State University, holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and a MBA from Belhaven University, and recently earned her Doctorate in Business Administration with a concentration in Leadership from Capella University. During her under-graduate years at Jackson State University, Tami majored in criminal justice and fully expected to become an attorney. But a funny thing happened on her path to taking the bar examination. She fell into sales shortly after graduation and can’t imagine doing anything else but sales and revenue generation. She has not worked a day in the criminal justice field. Revenue is her calling.
She began her career in sales at the Clarion Ledger Newspaper where she held many positions, which led her to management duties there before she left 14 years ago. Tami previously served as the Publisher for the Mississippi Business Journal, where she ran the day-to-day operations of the company, a position she held since January 2010 before joining the Mississippi Free Press. She worked with the Mississippi Business Journal for a total of 14.5 years.
Tami and her husband, Derrick Jones, reside in Clinton, Miss., with their three kids, Justin, Mia, Kayla and her 2-year-old granddaughter Einsleigh and 6-month-old granddaughter Jerricka. In her leisure time, Tami enjoys shopping, reading, and spending time with family and on the soccer field supporting her youngest daughter, Kayla. She has two dogs, Hershey and Bentley, that keep her busy as well.
You can reach her at tami@mississippifreepress.org.