About Susan Short Jones
Susan Short Jones is Senior Corporate Counsel with HCA, Inc. She has served as General Counsel and Senior Vice President, Access Health Systems, Inc.; Director of Law, Metropolitan Nashville Government; General Counsel, Tennessee Board of Regents; Assistant Attorney General, State of Tennessee, Staff Attorney, Legal Services Middle Tennessee Inc., and adjunct professor, Vanderbilt Law School. After serving as the Director of Law, she engaged in the private practice of law with clientele comprised of small businesses and Fortune 500 companies providing counsel in the areas of pubic finance, healthcare, business transactions, and Real Estate.
She currently serves on the Board of the Nashville ballet and is the past chair of its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. Community recognitions include awardee of the prestigious Athena and Phil Patton Community Service Award, Napier Looby Life Time Achievement Award, and inductee into the Academy of Women of Achievement. She is an alumnus of Leadership Nashville and the Society of International Business Fellows. She is a member of the Hendersonville Area Chapter of the Links and the founding president of the Metropolitan Nashville Coalition of 100 Black Women.
Susan graduated from Denison University (Granville, Ohio) with a degree in political science and Vanderbilt University Law School. She is a native of Dallas, Texas and is married to Roland Jones, a retired corporate executive and entrepreneur.
