Grace Alfretta Lomax

Melvina Ann Lomax

Renee Jones

Renee Jones Weeks, a daughter of Grace Lomax Jones, is also an Ursuline graduate, shown here in her senior year in the 1970 yearbook and in a current photograph of her. That academic year she was a Dean’s list student, the president of the Student Government Association, and the president of the local undergraduate chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, a national African-American sorority. She continued her education at Rutgers University, receiving her law degree in 1973.

Renee’s outstanding college career was a prelude to a distinguished professional career and to the prominence she has attained today as a judge in the Superior Court of New Jersey. For more on Judge Weeks’ achievements and career history, go to the Successful Alumnae web page.

In Judge Weeks’ keynote address to the graduating class of 1991, Weeks encouraged graduates to build a just community. “You have a choice,” said Judge Weeks, “as to whether or not you will go into the community and make a difference. I’m confident you will make the right choice.” Weeks went on to say that there will always be a special place in her heart for Ursuline. “I received far more than an education from Ursuline,” said Judge Weeks. “I was given the leadership skills that enabled me to pursue my goals in life.”

Ursuline College awarded Judge Weeks the 2004 Amadeus Rappe Award, which has been presented annually to an outstanding graduate of Ursuline College or Saint John College since 1971, the centennial year of Ursuline College. Read her acceptance speech.

In October 2004, Ursuline College President Sister Diana Stano nominated Renee Jones Weeks to the Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges’ Hall of Excellence, whose members include Ralph M. Besse, John and Annie Glenn, Hal Holbrook, Coretta Scott King, and Norman Vincent Peale. Weeks will be inducted into the Hall of Excellence in April of 2005. (The Hall of Excellence can be visited at http://www.ofic.org/hall.htm.)

Sources and Acknowledgments

The following sources for this Web page are to be found in the Ursuline College Archives: La Pucelle, 1928; Vista, 1970; In Focus, Vol. 7 No. 3, Summer 1991.

These additional sources were generously supplied by the Alumnae Office: Ursuline-St. John College Alumnae Association, Reunion Weekend 2004, Awards Luncheon Program; Amadeus Rappe Award Acceptance Speech by Renee Jones Weeks, September 25, 2004; current photograph of Judge Weeks.

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