Marlesse Jones
Director, Victim Services Commission
Government service
Director, Victim Services Commission · Utah Department of Criminal Justice
Background
Marlesse Jones directs Utah's Victim Services Commission. She began as a dispatcher in 1992 and later worked as a paralegal and victim advocate, including 13 years with Layton Victim Services. Her later work included prosecution for Layton and a sexual-assault and domestic-violence resource role at the Utah Prosecution Council. She earned social-work and law degrees at Weber State and the University of Utah. The agency's biography says Jones started in 1992 as a 911 dispatcher and has worked as a paralegal, victim advocate and Layton City prosecutor. She ran Layton's victim services program for 13 years, took part in the Rocky Mountain Innocence Clinic for two years during law school and now directs the Victim Services Commission.
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