Courtney Dunbar Jones

Courtney Adele Dunbar Jones (born April 18, 1978) is an American lawyer who serves as a judge of the United States Tax Court. Biography Jones earned her Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, from Hampton University and was the recipient of the President's Award for Exceptional Achievement. She earned her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where she served for two years as the editor in chief of the Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal, (which has since been renamed the Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice). She practiced for four years at Bird, Loechl, Brittain & McCants, a boutique law firm in Atlanta. Prior to joining the IRS she practiced for three years in the exempt organizations and intellectual property practice groups of the Washington, D.C.-based firm Caplin & Drysdale. From 2011 to 2019, she was a senior attorney in the Tax-Exempt and Government Entities division in the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service.