NORFOLK, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Governor Youngkin has ordered state flags at half-staff June 4 for the death of a trailblazing civil rights attorney who served in all three branches of Virginia’s government, and long-time Legislative Black Caucus Chair, Jerrauld Jones. He passed May 31 at age 70. His son and former Delegate, who also served in his legislative seat, Jay Jones is running for the Democrats’ nomination for state Attorney General. The elder Jones was the son of pioneering civil rights attorney Hillary H. Jones, Sr. and Jerrauld was one of the first African-American children to integrate Ingleside Elementary School in Norfolk in 1961. He graduated undergrad from Princeton and got his J.D. from Washington & Lee.

He served in the House of Delegates from 1988-to-2002, was Governor Mark Warner’s juvenile justice director in 2002, then in 2005 he was appointed judge in Norfolk Juvenile Justice and Domestic Relations Court. He became a Norfolk Circuit judge from 2008 until his death. Funeral arrangements are still being determined.