Dawn Jones (netball)

Myrlene Dawn Jones CNZM OBE JP (born 1940) is a New Zealand netball umpire who spent 15 years as New Zealand's top-ranked umpire and officiated at four netball world championships.

She was also a netball administrator, a school principal and a justice of the peace.

[1][2] Jones graduated from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1942.

[6][7][8] In the 1994 New Year Honours Jones was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to both netball and education.

In the 2016 Birthday Honours, she was a made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM)[4][5][9]