"On the recommendation of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Jones was nominated to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by President Bill Clinton on October 18, 1995 to a seat vacated by Kenneth Conboy. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 22, 1995, and received commission on December 26, 1995. Jones took senior status on December 31, 2012, and subsequently retired from the court on January 4, 2013 to go into private practice. She now works on white collar and financial fraud cases as a partner in the New York office of Bracewell LLP.
It wouldn’t shock me to find out that Jones was involved in creating the Steele dossier or something along those lines.
Seems inevitable that we are waiting to find out just how compromised she is.
One of her law firm's specialties is supposedly "white collar crime" defense as well as defending against other types of government-initiated litigation.
What practical effect that may have in this situation is certainly open to speculation.
Bracewell LLP is Rudy Giuliani's law firm.