Joseph Merrick Jones (August 20, 1902 – March 11, 1963) was an American lawyer from New Orleans, Louisiana.
He served as Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs in the U.S. State Department at the close of World War II, and was for many years the president of the Board of Tulane University.
He built a successful law practice in New Orleans as the senior partner of Jones, Flanders & Waechter.
In 1942, the law practice was set aside temporarily as a number of associates joined the armed services.
He was a fellow of Yale University's Department of Political Science, an editor of Fortune, and a special consultant to the United Nations.