Elizabeth Jones received her BA from Vassar College and went on to study painting at New York's Art Students League and in Rome. There she turned to relief sculpture, studying at the Scuola dell'Arte dolla Medaglia (School of Medalic Art) of the Italian Mint, receiving her diploma in 1964.

Ms. Jones has exhibited with Tiffany & Co. in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, San Francisco, and abroad with F.I.D.E.M. in Rome, Lisbon, Paris, Athens, Prague, and Cologne. In 1989 she was given a retrospective exhibition at the Italian Mint in Rome.

In 1972 she received the American Numismatic Association's prestigious Art Award for Excellence in Medallic Sculpture, and in 1978 the National Sculpture Society's Louis Bennett Award. In 1994 she was made an Honorary Life Member of the American Numismatic Association.

In 1981, President Ronald Reagan appointed Ms. Jones the eleventh Chief Sculptor and Engraver of the United States Mint, a position she held for the next ten years. The first woman to ever serve as Chief Sculptor and Engraver, Ms. Jones played a vital role in the re-introduction of the Mint's commemorative coin program. It was her equestrian design for the 1982 George Washington commemorative half-dollar — described as "a refreshing interpretation of a familiar theme" — that launched the nation's modern commemorative program.

Ms. Jones has designed five coins: the 1982 Washington half-dollar, the 1983 Olympic silver dollar, the 1986 Statue of Liberty $5 gold piece, the 1988 Olympic $5 gold obverse, and the 2001 Capitol Visitors $5 gold piece. Three of the four commemorative coins she designed at the Mint won the International Coin of the Year Award.

With much of her career as a sculptor devoted to relief portraits, among them medals of Albert Schweitzer, Pablo Picasso, Pope John Paul ll, and Nelson Rockefeller, Ms. Jones has turned in recent years to life-size portrait busts. She recently completed a bronze head of Henry Kissinger that was placed in the Library of Congress, and has started on another commission for a portrait of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

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