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Ed Jones Challenger Ed Jones, 82-year-old,is a nonpartisan member-elect of the Thousand Oaks City-Council 2018 and has won the general election on November 6, 2018.

Background Information Born to a Presbyterian minister, Jones has developed his unique passion from others for promoting community lives by providing public service and relishes meeting the needs of others. Raised in San Jose, he later moved to Glendale where he achieved his his high school diploma from graduating Glendale High School. After his tenure in the Army, he attended Occidental College where he earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree at Cal State Los Angeles. In 1964, he moved to Thousand Oaks with his wife and children, and then in 1970, Jones was proudly elected to the Thousand Oaks City Council after being appointed to the city's MASTER PLAN COMMITTEE in 1968.

'Experience/Credentials' Jones has been a political science professor at Pierce College, for nearly fifty years and has served the Thousand Oaks community on the Thousand Oask City Council, the Venturaa County Board of Supervisors, and the Conejo Recreation and Park District board, where he is now a board member.

Interview with Ed Jones and earlier council members "What is important to you about public service?" "My idea of a successful day in public office is one in which I solve someone's problem"(Jones). "He is a humanist who was devoted to progressive policies"(Cohen). "forming a forward-thinking general plan that has guided the city's successful development"(Horner).