In this episode of NTD’s “Profiles of Service,” we sit down with Doug Jones, a former senator from Alabama who served from 2018 to 2021. Jones, a lawyer by trade, spent years in private practice and was also U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, 1997 to 2001, where he successfully prosecuted two Ku Klux Klan members for the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church that killed four young girls.
Jones shares how much it meant to him to be able to close that case: “It went so long without justice, and it changes you as a lawyer, it changes you as a person, and it really makes you a better person.”…
