Executive Profile
In one of the most dramatic eras of ownership in professional sports, Jerry Jones's stewardship of the Dallas Cowboys has brought unprecedented results and success to one of the world's most visible sports entities.

Highlighted by Super Bowl victories following the 1992, 1993 and 1995 seasons, Jones became the first owner in NFL history to guide his team to three league championships in his first seven years of ownership.

In 1995, Dallas also became the first team in NFL history to win three Super Bowls in four seasons while tying the NFL record for most Super Bowl victories by an organization with five.

By 1999, the first decade of Jones's ownership closed with eight playoff appearances, six division titles, four conference championship game appearances and three world crowns. Dallas closed the millennium as the NFL's "Team of the Decade" for the 1990s.

Since he took over as general manager in 1989, the Cowboys have drafted 17 different players who have gone on to appear in a combined total of 63 Pro Bowls. Dallas has also signed four veteran free agent players who have made 13 Pro Bowl appearances while representing the Dallas Cowboys. Since 1989, the Cowboys have made 97 trades, the most celebrated of which was the 1989 deal that sent Herschel Walker to the Minnesota Vikings and provided the personnel foundation for three league titles.

In selecting the on-the-field leadership for the Cowboys, Jones hired a pair of coaches who won three Super Bowls in Dallas: Jimmy Johnson (1992-1993) and Barry Switzer (1995). Chan Gailey followed with a division title and playoff appearances in 1998 and 1999. In 2003, Jones successfully recruited two-time Super Bowl winner Bill Parcells to Dallas, and Parcells then directed the team to a 10-6 record and a return to the playoffs in his first year on the job. In the last 27 years, 26 different owners have entered the National Football League. Of that group, only Jerry Jones and Robert Kraft of New England have guided their franchises to more than two Super Bowl championships. Moreover, Jones joins Art Rooney, Jack Kent Cooke, Al Davis, Eddie DeBartolo and Kraft as the only men to have won at least three Super Bowls as NFL owners.

On the league front, he has actively contributed to enhancing the NFL's status as the world's premier professional sports league by serving on the NFL's Competition Committee, the Broadcast Committee, the Management Council Executive Committee and the Business Ventures Committee. His vision in the areas of marketing, corporate sponsorships, television, stadium management and community service has made a visible imprint on the landscape of sports in America.

As a co-captain of the 1964 National Championship Arkansas Razorbacks, Jones is one of a very small number of NFL owners who actually earned a significant level of success as a football player. Jones is currently living his passion by engineering the fortunes of an NFL franchise. A man of varied interests who will not rest on yesterday's achievements, he is a dedicated businessman and family man � sharing a vivid enthusiasm for both.

Although Jones and his family are very involved in numerous civic and charitable causes, the Joneses have left an indelible local and national imprint on the philanthropic landscape with their love and dedication to The Salvation Army.

For the past eight seasons, the Jones family has dedicated the Cowboys Thanksgiving Day halftime show as a national showcase to kick off The Salvation Army's annual Red Kettle Drive. Through the donation of national television airtime, the event has created a new holiday tradition, while helping to increase donations to The Salvation Army's annual fund raising efforts by hundreds of millions of dollars. Major George Hood of The Salvation Army states that "by presenting the National Kettle Kickoff on Thanksgiving Day, the Dallas Cowboys have helped the Army raise over $800 million in the past eight years." Reba McEntire, Randy Travis, Clint Black, Jessica Simpson, Billy Gilman, Creed, LeAnn Rimes, Toby Keith and Destiny's Child have provided the entertainment for the last eight holiday extravaganzas.

The Salvation Army points to the annual Cowboys kickoff event as one of the most effective, creative and important innovations that has been developed in the long and storied history of the organization.

The Joneses received the Evangeline Booth Award in 1999, one of the Army's highest national community service awards and have been selected for membership into the prestigious Salvation Army William Booth Society. Gene and Jerry were also named to the Army's National Advisory Board in April of 1998 shortly after being named the organization's Partners of the Year in 1997. For 10 years, Gene and Jerry Jones served as hosts and underwrote the costs for the Super Lunch, a fundraising event for The Salvation Army Irving Corps Community Center. In 1998, the Gene and Jerry Jones Family Center for Children opened in conjunction with The Army.

As part of the Jones Family and the Dallas Cowboys commitment to Arlington, Texas, the future home of the club's new stadium, the Gene and Jerry Jones Family Charities will donate $16.5 million to youth sports in Arlington over the next 33 years.

In 2001, the Joneses were awarded the Chairman's Award by The Boys and Girls Clubs of America. In June of 2002, Gene and Jerry Jones were recognized as the recipients of the Children's Champion Award for Philanthropy that was presented by the Dallas for Children organization. In 2003, the Family Gateway organization of Dallas presented Gene and Jerry with the Annette G. Strauss Humanitarian Award. In April of 2005, Gene and Jerry were recipients of the Hope Award, the highest community service recognition awarded by the Lone Star Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The Jones family is very involved with several other community-related organizations, including Children's Medical Center of Dallas, Happy Hill Farm Academy/Home, the National Board for The Boys and Girls Clubs of America, the Kent Waldrep Paralysis Foundation, The Rise School of Dallas and The Family Place.

Jerry and Gene live in Dallas. They have three children, Stephen, Charlotte and Jerry, Jr., and seven grandchildren.

Stephen (6/21/64) is a graduate of the University of Arkansas and serves as the Cowboys Chief Operating Officer/Executive Vice President/Director of Player Personnel. Charlotte (7/26/66) is a Stanford graduate and serves as the Cowboys Vice President/Director of Charities and Special Events. Jerry Jr. (9/27/69), a graduate of Georgetown University who earned his law degree from Southern Methodist University, is the Cowboys Chief Sales and Marketing Officer/Vice President.