 Samuel Jones has served as president of the Conductors Guild and received numerous awards and prizes.These include a Ford Foundation Recording/Publication Award, grants from Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts grants, ASCAP awards, an International Angel Award, three Music Awards from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Seattle Symphony's 2002 Artistic Recognition Award for outstanding service to the orchestra.Millsaps College awarded him an honorary doctorate in May 2000.