Barbara Ann Posey Jones (born 1943) is an American economist who was a leader of the 1958 Katz Drug Store sit-in as a high school student.
[1] Since 1971, she has been a professor of economics, department head, and Dean at several historically Black Colleges and Universities in the American South.
Jones began her career at Texas Southern University[9] and then continued work as an economics professor at Clark College (which became Clark Atlanta University), serving as department chair even before she finished her PhD.
She joined Prairie View A&M as department chair in 1987, quickly becoming Dean of the College of Business from 1989 to 1997.
In 1997, she became Dean of the School of Business at Alabama A&M University, where she served as a professor of Economics until her retirement in 2016.