Dr. Jones graduated from Auburn University School of Veterinary Medicine in 1980. He was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama. He planned to do a one year internship in Nashville, but fell in love with the city and never left. Dr. and Mrs. Jones have two grown children, Austin and Wylie, and grandchildren who are the light of their life. He enjoys hunting and fishing, whether it is in Tennessee, his native Alabama or all the way in South Dakota and Canada [citation].