Joel Jones (October 26, 1795 – February 3, 1860) was an American lawyer, jurist, and mayor of Philadelphia.

After graduating at Yale University with high honor in 1817, he commenced the study of law with Judge William Bristol of New Haven, Connecticut, and afterward finished at Tapping Reeve's Litchfield Law School in Litchfield, Connecticut.

[1] In 1830 he was appointed by Governor George Wolf one of three commissioners to revise the civil code of Pennsylvania.

He took an active interest in theological speculations and inquiries, and was an earnest advocate of a literal interpretation of those scriptures which predict the second coming of Christ.

John Sparhawk Jones, whose daughter Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones was an artist.