Jon Powell was born in Muncie, Indiana. Jon Powell worked at various jobs growing up including delivering newspapers, working on a farm, working as a janitor, working for fast-food companies, and delivering pizzas. Mr. Powell graduated from Muncie Central High School and then went to Purdue University and obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Math and Statistics in 1987. Mr. Powell then went to Texas A&M where he taught Statistics and received a Master's Degree in Statistics in 1989. After graduating from Texas A&M, he worked in medical research at the Texas A&M Medical School and then he worked as a Statistician in the petrochemical industry for Solvay.

While working he obtained an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Houston in 1992 and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Houston Law Center in 1996. Mr. Powell graduated Magna Cum Laude from law school and he was a member of the prestigious University of Houston Law Center Law Review. Mr. Powell applies his math, statistics and finance background to maximize the monetary claims of his clients for lost earnings capacity, life care plans, loss of household services, physical impairment, pain and suffering, and disfigurement in personal injury cases. Mr. Powell, from his childhood jobs, extensive education, and many years of practice as an attorney - has learned the value of working hard, intelligently, and rapidly to get the clients the best results in the quickest possible amount of time. Mr. Powell has practiced law for over seventeen years and in this time has obtained numerous multi-million dollar trial verdicts and settlements for his clients.