Hon. Paula Juels Jones is a judge for the Pulaski County District Court in Arkansas. She was elected to the bench in 2016.
Juels Jones presides over the Criminal Division and the Civil and Small Claims Division in North Little Rock.
Prior to her election, she had worked as an assistant city attorney in North Little Rock since 2007. Before her position there, she was a deputy prosecutor with the 6th Judicial Circuit for six years and with Lonoke County for four years, as well as a staff attorney at the Securities Commission.
Juels Jones is credited with starting the teen court juvenile diversion program in North Little Rock.
She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Juels Jones went on to complete a J.D. at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law in 2000.
An accomplished tennis player, she was inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame in 2016 and the Arkansas Tennis Hall of Fame in 2007. Juels Jones began playing at the age of eight and continued to play into adulthood.