Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones is an Enid, Oklahoma, attorney whose practice is limited to trials and
appeals. He attended the University of Texas, graduated from the University of Oklahoma
Law School in 1966, and was admitted to the Bar that same year.
In 1964, he was personal assistant to Richard M. Nixon, and in 1967 was legal counsel
to the Governor of Oklahoma. From 1966 to 1969, he worked as administrative assistant
to Congressman Paul Findley and as a special assistant to Senator Charles Percy. In
1968, he served as a member of the United States delegation to the North Atlantic
Assembly.
From 1970 to 1974, he was general counsel for the A.C.L.U. in Oklahoma. He was the
Republican nominee for Attorney General in 1974 and for the United States Senate in
1990.
Stephen was a member of the Oklahoma Supreme Court Committee on Civil Jury Instructions,
associate editor of the Oklahoma Bar Association Journal, and a member of the Oklahoma
Court of Criminal Appeals Rules Committee. In 1979, he was appointed Special United
States Attorney to investigate allegations of criminal wrongdoing against the Administrative
Director of the United States Court System, William Foley.
Stephen practices law in Enid. A substantial portion of his practice is devoted to
commercial and criminal litigation.
On May 8, 1995, he was appointed by the United States District Court to serve as the
principal defense counsel for Timothy James McVeigh, charged in the Oklahoma City
bombing case. Mr. Jones is the author of numerous Law Review articles on the subject
of the Oklahoma City bombing case, and is the author of Others Unknown, The Oklahoma
City Bombing Case and Conspiracy, published by Public Affairs, New York (1998), revised
and reissued in paperback in May 2001. He is also the author of a two-volume work,
Oklahoma Criminal Law Practice & Procedure published by West Publishing Company.