Megan S. Smith

Born and raised in Falls Church, Va., Megan Sue Smith is the daughter of Vivian Douglas Smith and David Eugene Smith. In her formative years, she took ballet, piano, and played alto and tenor sax in an award-winning band. Finding her singing voice at The Colorado College, Megan soon founded the country-folk group "The Smith Sisters" with sister Debi Smith. They toured extensively starting in 1982, performing with acts including Doc and Meryl Watson, Mark O'Connor, Ricky Skaggs, Loretta Lynn, Crystal Gayle, and Vince Gill, playing in such venues as The Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap Farm Park, The Birchmere, and NYC's Bottom Line, as well as the Soviet Union. Guitar legend Meryl Watson produced The Smith Sisters first two albums on Flying Fish Records. Following his untimely death, the sisters went on to produce two more for Flying Fish/Rounder Records and two award-winning children's albums. In 1985, Megan married a Washington Post reporter and lived in Washington, D.C. During the 1990s, she was congressional liaison for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and from 1995 to 2007 was the President of MSS Consultants, and Director of the American/National Bioenergy Association in D.C. In 1992, Megan met and later married W. Proctor Jones, a U.S. Senate staffer of 35 years and later partner at Johnston and Associates and Steptoe Johnson law/consulting firms. Megan has an M.S. in biology with a specialization in environmental policy, and a Master's thesis in molecular genetics. For the past several years, Megan has been acting in community theater and working in stage management, including two plays written by Jim Reston, Jr. She is currently on the committee for "The Film Festival at Little Washington" in beautiful Rappahannock County, Va., home to the renowned Relais and Chateau's "Inn at Little Washington." Megan's free-lance pieces have been published by The Washington Post, The Piedmont Virginian, Sedona Red Rock News and The Rappahannock News. For the past decade Megan has dedicated to writing. She has been writing narrative screenplays, and has most recently, in 2015 finished an animated film about her beloved dogs, Jackie and Bobby.