Please join us in celebrating the long and highly successful career of Dr. Claudia Jones, who retired from the Duke Department of Pathology on November 30, 2021. In honor of her many contributions to our department, medical center, and university, she has been named Associate Professor of Pathology Emerita. Dr. Jones has deep connections to Duke and Durham, having attended Duke for both her undergraduate and medical school degrees. She completed her pathology residency at Vanderbilt University, and then moved to California for a cytopathology fellowship at the University of California San Francisco, training under the renowned Dr. Britt-Marie Ljung among others. After completing her training, she joined the faculty at Vanderbilt in 1991 and became the director of the Vanderbilt FNA clinic. In 1999, Dr. Jones returned to Duke as a member of our Cytopathology division, becoming chief of that division in 2001, and ultimately becoming Vice Chair for Faculty in 2017. In the latter capacity, she oversaw numerous recruitments that have augmented our faculty with talented new colleagues and offered mentoring and support to faculty. Under Dr. Jones’ guidance, cytopathology became an indispensable part of the clinical diagnostic service team at Duke, providing rapid on-site specimen evaluations at an enormous variety of sites and procedures through the health system. Dr. Jones was also responsible for establishing a free-standing FNA clinic with ultrasound capabilities, which provided our patients with an easy and fast method for evaluation of clinically concerning lesions. For those lucky enough to work with her, she was an outstanding colleague, mentor, and educator. In addition to being the “go-to” faculty member for diagnostically challenging cases, she was an outstanding source of mentorship, support, and common sense advice. We will miss her wisdom and expertise every day. Congratulations, Dr. Jones, on a stellar career, and we look forward to hearing about the new horse and all of the fun times in retirement!