Leadership Breakfast Series presents County Commissioner

3/16/2007

Cleveland Engineering Society’s Leadership Breakfast Series continues on April 17, 2007 with Peter Lawson Jones, Cuyahoga County Commissioner. The program resumes at Corporate College East at 4400 Richmond Road in Warrensville Heights.

Peter Lawson Jones, the only duly elected African-American county commissioner in the State of Ohio, is Vice President of the Board of County Commissioners and represents the Board as President of the Cuyahoga County Arts & Cultural District, Vice Chairman of the Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District and as the BOCC’s designee to the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland Executive Committee, Greater Cleveland Sports Commission and the World Trade Center-Cleveland/International Trade Alliance. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency. Jones previously served two and one-half terms in the Ohio House of Representatives, where he was the ranking minority member of the House Finance and Appropriations Committee and second vice president of the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus.

Jones is a partner with the law firm of Roetzel & Andress, working in the firm’s Cleveland office as part of the public law group. A graduate of Harvard College (Magna Cum Laude in Government) and Harvard Law School, Jones was formerly law director and prosecutor for the Village of Woodmere, Ohio, and president of the Ohio Works! Company in Cleveland, a venture that placed welfare recipients in permanent full-time employment.

Among his civic activities, Jones is treasurer of the Harvard Law School Association of Cleveland, a member of the National Association of Counties Community and Economic Development Steering Committee, an executive committee member of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party and serves on several boards of directors and task forces.

For his work, Jones, who was named an Ohio Super Lawyer for 2004 - 2006 and is a graduate of the Greater Cleveland Growth Association’s Leadership Cleveland Program, received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from David N. Myers University. Every year since 2004, Inside Business has included him amongst its “Power One Hundred,” a list of the most influential decision-makers in Northeast Ohio. He has received numerous awards, including the Association of Black Psychologists Community Service Award (2006) and the National Organization of African-Americans in Housing Chairman’s Award for Outstanding Public Service (2005)

Professional Engineers earn one CPD hour by attending each program and almost half the yearly requirement by attending the entire series.

Don’t miss this exciting lineup of speakers in 2007:

May 15, 2007
John Ference
Project Manager, Marine Division
Rockwell Automation

September 18, 2007
Arthur F. Anton
President and CEO, Swagelok

October 16, 2007
Dr. Eugene Sanders
CEO, Cleveland Municipal School District

November, 2007
John M. Stropki
Chairman, President and CEO,
Lincoln Electric