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Speaker & Honorary Degree Recipient
Angela (Montag) Jones ’01
director of business and legal affairs (original series) at Netflix, Los Angeles, Calif.
Jones earned her bachelor’s degree in politics at Juniata, then completed her juris doctorate at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary in 2004.
At Netflix, Jones manages a team of attorneys that handle all aspects of Netflix’s global licensed agreements, providing guidance on talent-related issues and managing Netflix’s overall relationships with the U.S.-based studios that produce these shows. Also, Jones was responsible for building up the production legal team in Netflix’s London office and oversaw several of Netflix’s UK-based productions.
Before joining Netflix, Jones spent 10 years working in Philadelphia: first, as an associate in the business and finance group at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, where she counseled clients on mergers and acquisitions, public and private company finance and securities law, and later as a senior counsel at Comcast, where she handled a range of content acquisition deals for Comcast’s Cable division.
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Honorary Degree Recipient
Dr. D. Holmes Morton
physician specializing in genetic disorders affecting Old Order Amish and Mennonite children
Dr. Morton, who lives and works in Pennsylvania, is renowned for his humanitarian efforts. Morton served in the United States Merchant Marines before earning his undergraduate degree at Trinity College and completing his doctor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. His experiences during his residency led him to work with the Pennsylvania Amish community, and in 1989, he founded the Clinic for Special Children in Strasburg, Pa. Then, in 2017, he founded the Central Pennsylvania Clinic in Belleville, Pa.
Morton’s commitment to providing healthcare to underserved communities is a testament to his unwavering dedication. He was also honored as one of Time magazine’s “Heroes of Medicine” in 1997. In 2006, he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” to acknowledge his groundbreaking work. He collaborates with Juniata College, where he hosts research students and plays a vital role as an instructor in Juniata’s bioinformatics graduate program.