About Kyle

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Kyle began his career as a prosecutor in 2013, hired by District Attorney Frank Parrish to a temporary position created due to an Assistant District Attorney serving on active duty in the Army Reserves.  Four months into his employment there, District Attorney Parrish tragically passed away.  Governor Pat McCrory appointed (now-Superior Court Judge) Andrew Womble to the vacant District Attorney position soon thereafter, and Kyle was hired to a permanent position, and very proudly served under Womble for his eight years as District Attorney.  In the nearly-12 years since he began his career, Kyle has handled tens of thousands of cases, appearing in District Court in all seven counties in the District, and being assigned to Superior Court in six of its seven counties.  Now working under District Attorney Jeff Cruden, he values his role as a member of the team.  He has developed a reputation amongst judges, defense attorneys, law enforcement, and courtroom personnel as a prosecutor that treats people with decency and consideration, is able to manage large and complex dockets efficiently, readily admits when he doesn’t know something, respects the opinions of others, is decisive in a way that reflects aforethought, is a man of his word, and upholds the decorum and formality of the courtroom. 

The Jones family has been in the  New Hope/Durant’s Neck area of Perquimans County since before the Civil War.  A Republican since he registered to vote at 18, and the great-nephew of longtime Perquimans County Republican Party Chairman Bobby Jones, Kyle returned to the area following law school in 2011, and ran for County Commissioner in 2012 at the age of 27, and became the youngest person ever elected to the Board of Commissioners.  He was re-elected to subsequent four-year terms in 2016 and 2020,  and in each election notably received more votes than the previous election,  a fact that Kyle is tremendously proud of, as it reflects the level of faith in his decision-making of the citizens that literally knew him best.  When Kyle came off the Board in 2024 after declining to seek a fourth term, County  staff and fellow Commissioners  in their  comments and well-wishes characterized Kyle as welcoming  and gracious towards new Board members, wise in his counsel to members,  possessing core principles that he stuck to consistently, and as one individual noted “Kyle  has his ideas about how local government should be run: fiscally responsible, with honesty, honor and respect.”
Kyle served as Vice-Chairman, and then Chairman of the Board, becoming Chairman at the age of 32.  He also served as Chairman of the Albemarle District Jail Board, and Chairman of the Juvenile Crime Prevention Council/Inter-Agency Council.

Born and raised in Perquimans County, Kyle is the son of Tommy and Kathy Jones.   Kyle graduated from Perquimans County High School in 2003, East Carolina University in 2007, and Liberty University School of Law in 2011.  He is married to Grace Jones, the Theatre teacher at the same Perquimans high school that Kyle and friends James Caddy, Gena (Harrell) Hurdle, Josh Lassiter, Danielle Stallings, and Megan (Stallings) Loftin once roamed,  and serves under a Superintendent of Schools who was Kyle‘s 5th Grade teacher.   Kyle and Grace own a business, an LLC that owns and manages residential rental properties.  They are members of the church Kyle grew up in, New Hope (formerly-United Methodist) Church in Durant’s Neck, where Grace sings in the choir and Kyle serves as a member of the Board of Trustees.  His personal motto, adopted from his pastor during the time he was in law school, is “have a healthy skepticism of your own opinion.”

When developing my campaign logo, I wanted something unique to me.  My graphic design person asked me to describe three things: the area that the judicial district encompasses, my experience in differ areas of the law, and what I view as the most important duties of a District Court Judge. 

I told her how six out of the seven counties in the District have miles and miles of shoreline, and that two of those counties sit along the Atlantic Ocean. Also, I mentioned that we have a large amount of farmland in the area, and that historically the area’s two most-common trades were farming and fishing.  

On my courtroom experience, I told her that I’ve been a prosecutor for most of my career, but before I was a prosecutor I practiced in the areas of criminal defense, as well as civil court in the form of parent representation in Department of Social Services cases. Finally, I described the duties of a judge as clearly defined in the oath that a Judge takes - the most important of which is to the Constitutions of the United States and North Carolina, which a Judge of the State of North Carolina swears on the Bible to support, maintain, and defend.  

Her finished product incorporates a rising sun inspired by Psalm 84:11, with seven “morning stars” around it to symbolize the seven counties (Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Pasquotank and Perquimans) that make up the district.  The sun is displayed as rising above a mix of navy blue and white lines, which simultaneously symbolize both waves and rows of crops/farmland. 

The shield symbolizes the function that the United States and North Carolina Constitutions have as shields and not as swords, to protect the rights of citizens against their government, whom the Founders were inherently fearful of overreaching, as the government they had just violently thrown off was quite fond of doing.  The shield is also a symbol of my career as a prosecutor, an employee of the elected District Attorney (specifically, in my career I have worked for Frank Parrish, Andy Womble, and now Jeff Cruden) who is the top state-level law enforcement officer in the region.  Likewise, the shield is a symbol of an attorney’s duty to ensure their clients’ rights, their liberty and their property are protected against the government, and against other citizens.  

It took us a while to get the details like I wanted them.  In fact, the first logo design, something entirely different than the shield, was an idea that I had my mind set on coming into the process, but several friends were kind enough to do what I asked them to, which was offer their opinions with the freedom to be critical and brutally-honest.  I only had to do my part and listen to them.  When my graphic design professional sent me the final revision for the shield logo, I excitedly ran over Grace and said “we’ve got it, this is it.”  I won’t reveal her name because politics and partisan matters can be so unnecessarily-divisive for a business, but I’m very grateful for the talents and abilities of this true artist (who also created the logos for another regional elected official, as well as my County Commissioner logo that I used from 2012-2024).  I trust her vision and her creativity without reservation, and I am both personally and professionally proud (zealously-so) of the logo she developed.  I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I do. -KJ