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Bobby Jones, who is receiving the Distinguished Service Award for his devoted and exemplary service to Henderson, is currently the University’s vice president for finance and administration.
A Certified Public Accountant, Jones was a Distinguished Military Graduate from the Henderson ROTC department, and a four-year letterman on the Reddie football team where he earned All-AIC honors in 1970.
After returning from Vietnam in 1973, Jones returned to Arkadelphia and worked for a local CPA firm and two local financial institutions.
Jones returned to Henderson in 1989 as the university’s controller. He was appointed vice president for finance and administration in 1999. Passionate for Henderson State University and Reddie athletics, Jones served as the sixteenth president of HSU, on an interim basis, and later as the director of athletics on an interim basis.
Jones retired from the United States Army Reserves in 1997 having attained the rank of colonel. He holds a B.S.B.A degree in accounting and an M.B.A., both from Henderson.
Jones was previously inducted into the Henderson State University School of Business Hall of Honor and the HSU Academy.
He and his wife, Judith Echols Jones, a former Reddie Cheerleader, were married in 1970 and have two sons and eight grandchildren.
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