Todd Jones serves as Executive Director of the President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education. He assumed that position after his appointment by President Bush as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement in the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Prior to joining the Bush administration, he served as the first President of the National Education Knowledge Industry Association (NEKIA). NEKIA is a broad-based trade association dedicated to promoting investment in and the use of research-based products and services to enhance the quality of education.

Prior to joining NEKIA, Todd served as an attorney on the staff of Chairman Bill Goodling on the House Education and the Workforce Committee. During that period he represented Republican Members of Congress as chief negotiator during the bicameral, bipartisan negotiation of the IDEA Amendments of 1997. He also counseled committee members on a variety of other education, disability, civil rights, teacher training, and labor issues, including his key policy development work for the Rehabilitation Act Amendments in 1998, and that year's amendments to the Education of the Deaf Act. In the early 1990's, Todd served as in-house counsel to the American Rehabilitation Association, an association of community rehabilitation programs for people with disabilities and medical rehabilitation providers. He holds a B.S.B.A. and J.D. from the University of Denver and an LL.M. from the Georgetown University Law Center.

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