Burr W. Jones (March 9, 1846 – January 7, 1935) was an American lawyer, politician, jurist, and law professor.

His father, William Jones, died in 1855, and his mother then married Levi Leonard, a pioneer of Rock County.

After leaving the university, he studied law in the office of William Freeman Vilas and was admitted to the State Bar of Wisconsin that year.

[2] Jones returned to Madison and became a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin for the next thirty years of his life.

He remained involved in local affairs and government, serving as City Attorney in 1891, and as chairman of the first Wisconsin Tax Commission in 1897 and 1898.

[2] In 1920, he was appointed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court by Governor Emanuel L. Philipp, to fill the vacancy created by the death of justice John B. Winslow.

The television series Profiles in Courage did an episode in 1964 titled "Richard T. Ely" about the "sifting and winnowing" incident.