EVENT SPEAKER

Dr. J. Donald Jones

Dr. J. Donald Jones of Marietta, Georgia, has been selected to judge Best In Show at the 132nd Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show February 11-12, 2008 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Dr. Jones is a retired counseling psychologist and college administrator. His professional life was devoted to teaching, coaching athletics, counseling and university administration, and he served as a Student Personnel Dean at Emory University in Atlanta for 20 years before retiring several years ago.

He has been judging dogs for 30 years. His original breeds were Doberman Pinschers, German Shepherd Dogs, Miniature Pinschers, Schipperkes and Pembroke Welsh Corgis. He owned and showed a Best in Show Corgi and owned the top winning Schipperke in the history of the breed.

For many years, he showed livestock, exhibiting several Regional Grand Champions, and also showed horses (hunters and jumpers). He has judged dog shows all over the world. He has judged eight previous times at Westminster, including the Herding Group in 1987 and 1998.


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