In 1997 he was appointed United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama and headed the prosecution of the last two suspects brought to trial for the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Jones had previously served as a clerk for the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate, as Assistant U. S. Attorney, and as a criminal defense attorney. Jones will present the March 19th lecture Prosecuting the Sixteenth Street Church Bombing. Edward S. LaMonte is vice president for administration and Howell Heflin Professor of Political Science at Birmingham-Southern College. Previously director of the Center for Urban Affairs at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and executive secretary to Birmingham Mayor Richard Arrington, Jr., LaMonte is the author of George B. Ward: Birmingham�s Urban Statesman