Vicki Hawkins-Jones

Vicki is a special counsel with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), a financial institution regulatory agency in the U. S. Department of the Treasury responsible for the regulation and supervision of national banks and federal savings associations. In this position, Vicki prepares legal opinions and interpretive advice on complex and emerging issues related to or affecting the powers, activities, operations, safety, and soundness of national banks and federal savings associations nationwide. She also handles legal issues that arise in connection with the rehabilitation or resolution of troubled financial institutions, and provides guidance to institutions and their counsel regarding governing statutes and regulations. Before joining the OCC, Vicki served as a special counsel and assistant chief counsel with the Office of Thrift Supervision and its predecessor, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which she joined during the savings and loan crisis. From 1985 to 1988, Vicki served in the Office of the Attorney General of the Virgin Islands, initially as an assistant attorney general and later as counsel to the attorney general. She advised the attorney general and the governor of the Virgin Islands on a variety of high-profile issues affecting the executive branch of the Territorial Government. Earlier in her career, Vicki represented the United States in defensive litigation as a trial attorney with the U. S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, and was in private practice with the Baltimore, Maryland, law firm of Venable Baetjer and Howard. Vicki received a bachelor of arts in psychology from Wellesley College in 1973 and a juris doctorate from Boston College Law School in 1976. She is admitted to the bars of the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia. Vicki is an Associate of The Council for Women of Boston College and is a member of numerous bar and professional associations. Vicki and her husband, Michael Jones, have a son, Michael Jones Jr. ’09, a Sidwell Friends School lifer.