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Stephen Jones was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas and raised in nearby Little Rock. He resides in Dallas, Texas with his wife Karen and together they have three daughters - Jessica, Jordan, and Caroline- and a son - John Stephen. Stephen attended the University of Arkansas where he, like his father, was a fellow Razorback. Having a successful collegiate football career as a linebacker, Jones continued pursuing a career in football as he joined his father's newly acquired Dallas Cowboys team as a vice president with the club in 1989. Stephen Jones has been instrumental in Dallas' success over the last thirty years as he helped shape the Dallas roster during the victorious decade of the 1990s helping the team nab six division titles and four conference championships and three super bowls wins during that period. His role in player recruitment and scouting has created an elite football club that continues the Cowboys have produced winning records in eight of the last fourteen seasons and scoring division titles in 2007, 2009, 2014, and 2016 with such players as Dez Bryant, Dak Prescott, and Ezekiel Elliot. Currently Jones oversees the management operations for all aspects of the Dallas Cowboys and AT&T stadium including player recruitment, major player contracts and salary cap, over 400 organization employees and overall personnel.
After the announcement of the construction of the elite AT&T Stadium, Jones was put in charge of spearheading the project, overseeing all aspects of development and construction of the venue. AT&T stadium opened to the public in May of 2009 and the 100,00-seat stadium established record setting attendance during its season opener in 2009 with 105,121 attendees, a record for an NFL regular season game. With the success of AT&T Stadium, Jones was responsible for facilitating a partnership between the City of Frisco and the Frisco Independent School District that would develop a new state of the art Cowboys World Headquarters in Frisco, Texas. The facility, known as The Star, opened its doors for operation in the summer of 2016 and is a 510,000 square-foot indoor athletic facility that is also home to FISD's high school football teams.
