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Following her graduation from law school, where she served on the staff of the Iowa Law Review and graduated with honors and Order of the Coif, Jones worked an assistant city attorney in Sioux City from 1979 to 1980 and an associate in the Sioux City law firm of Klass, Whicher and Mishne from 1981 to 1982.
Jones began her academic career at the St. Louis University School of Law in 1982 and taught there until 1990. She joined the University of Connecticut in 1990. At the University of Connecticut, she served as associate dean of academic affairs and on numerous committees, including faculty appointments and a dean's search. She joined the University of Iowa College of Law in 2004 when she became the 16th Dean of the College.
She has also been a visiting professor at the University of Exeter, Washington University, and the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University.
Jones' legal specialty is tax law, and her research specialty is legal history of taxation. The period on which much of her works focuses is World War II and the postwar period when much of the current income tax system developed. She has contributed to five books on tax law and is the author of numerous scholarly articles on the issue. She has also made numerous presentations about tax issues, estate law and Social Security.
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