Alberta Odell Jones was one the first African-American women to pass the Kentucky bar, and was the first female city attorney in Jefferson County. She was appointed in February 1965 to be a prosecutor in Louisville Domestic Relations Court, and was murdered in August of that year. Jones was a graduate of Louisville Central High School and attended the Louisville Municipal College for African Americans. When the college was merged with the University of Louisville (U of L) during desegregation, Jones continued her education at U of L and graduated third in her class. She was accepted into the University of Louisville Law School but transferred after the first year to Howard University School of Law, where she graduated fourth in her class. After law school, Jones started her own law office, located at 2018 W. Broadway, and at one point represented a young boxer named Cassius Clay. She took Clay—now known as Muhammad Ali—to California to be trained under Archie Moore. Jones was also active in the Louisville civil rights movement. After participating in the March on Washington and the marches in Louisville, she rented voting machines and held classes to teach African Americans how to vote for the candidate of their choice. She established the Independent Voters Association and was an active member of the Louisville Urban League and the NAACP. She also established the James "Bulky" Welch Fund and held a fund-raiser, raffling off a car to pay Welch's medical bills and purchase the prosthetic arms to replace the ones young Welch had lost trying to retrieve his dog from under a train. Sometime in the early hours of August 5, 1965, someone murdered Alberta Jones and tossed her body off Louisville’s Sherman Minton Bridge, into the waters of the Ohio River. Police at the time attributed her death to drowning, but an autopsy also indicated she had received several serious blows to her head before she entered the water.