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Jolanda Jones
2022 - Present
2027
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Jolanda Jones (Democratic Party) is a member of the Texas House of Representatives, representing District 147. She assumed office on May 18, 2022. Her current term ends on January 12, 2027.
Jones (Democratic Party) is running in a special election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 18th Congressional District. She is on the ballot in the special general election on November 4, 2025.[source]
Biography
Jolanda Jones graduated from Alief Elsik High School. Jones earned a B.S. in political science and government and a J.D. from the University of Houston in 1989 and 1995, respectively. Her career experience includes owning and working as a lawyer with the Law Office of Jolanda Jones.[1][2] Jones served on the Houston City Council from January 2008 to January 2012.[3]
Committee assignments
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2023-2024
Jones was assigned to the following committees:
Sponsored legislation
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Elections
2025
See also: Texas' 18th Congressional District special election, 2025
General election
The general election will occur on November 4, 2025.
Special general election for U.S. House Texas District 18
The following candidates are running in the special general election for U.S. House Texas District 18 on November 4, 2025.
Candidate | ||
| Feldon Bonner II (D) | ||
 | Amanda Edwards (D) | |
 | Stephen Huey (D)  | |
 | Jolanda Jones (D) | |
 | Isaiah Martin (D) | |
 | Christian Menefee (D) | |
 | Valencia Williams (D) | |
 | Theodis Daniel (R) | |
| Ollie Knox (R) | ||
 | Carmen Montiel (R) | |
| Carter Page (R) | ||
| Ronald Whitfield (R) | ||
| Tammie Rochester (G) | ||
| Reyna Anderson (Independent) | ||
 | Vince Duncan (Independent) | |
| George Foreman (Independent) | ||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Barry Dewayne Marchant (D)
- Zoe Cadore (D)
- Jarvis Johnson (D)
- Peter Filler (D)
- Lizette Prestwich (D)
- Chance Davis (Independent)
- Robert Slater (D)
- Derrell Turner (Independent)
- Khris Beal (Independent)
- James Joseph (D)
- Kivan Polimis (D)
- Corisha Rogers (D)
- Selena Samuel (D)
- Ebony Eatmon (D)
- T.J. Baker (D)
- Tejas Tuppera (Independent)
- Laverne Crump (D)
Endorsements
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2024
See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Texas House of Representatives District 147
Incumbent Jolanda Jones defeated Claudio Gutierrez in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 147 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jolanda Jones (D) | 74.5 | 47,828 |
 | Claudio Gutierrez (R) | 25.5 | 16,332 | |
| Total votes: 64,160 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 147
Incumbent Jolanda Jones advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 147 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jolanda Jones | 100.0 | 10,954 |
| Total votes: 10,954 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 147
Claudio Gutierrez advanced from the Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 147 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Claudio Gutierrez | 100.0 | 2,138 |
| Total votes: 2,138 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
Jones received the following endorsements.
2022
Regular election
See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
The general election was canceled. Incumbent Jolanda Jones won election in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 147.
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Democratic primary runoff election
Democratic primary runoff for Texas House of Representatives District 147
Incumbent Jolanda Jones defeated Danielle Keys Bess in the Democratic primary runoff for Texas House of Representatives District 147 on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jolanda Jones | 53.7 | 3,588 |
 | Danielle Keys Bess | 46.3 | 3,092 | |
| Total votes: 6,680 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 147
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 147 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jolanda Jones | 41.8 | 4,950 |
| ✔ | | Danielle Keys Bess | 19.9 | 2,351 |
 | Reagan Flowers | 17.4 | 2,062 | |
 | Aurelia Wagner | 8.5 | 1,010 | |
 | Namrata Subramanian | 6.8 | 808 | |
 | Somtoochukwu Ik-Ejiofor | 3.1 | 369 | |
| Akwete Hines | 2.4 | 289 | ||
| Total votes: 11,839 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 147
Damien Thaddeus Jones defeated Rashard Baylor in the Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 147 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Damien Thaddeus Jones | 53.7 | 1,117 | |
| Rashard Baylor | 46.3 | 965 | ||
| Total votes: 2,082 | |||
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Campaign finance
Special election
See also: Texas state legislative special elections, 2022
General election
Special general election for Texas House of Representatives District 147
Jolanda Jones defeated Danielle Keys Bess in the special general election for Texas House of Representatives District 147 on May 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jolanda Jones (D) | 52.3 | 2,330 |
| Danielle Keys Bess (D) | 47.7 | 2,125 | |
| Total votes: 4,455 | |||
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Campaign finance
2020
See also: Municipal elections in Harris County, Texas (2020)
General election
General election for Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector
Incumbent Ann Harris Bennett defeated Chris Daniel and Billy Pierce in the general election for Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Ann Harris Bennett (D) | 53.1 | 834,405 |
 | Chris Daniel (R) | 43.6 | 685,791 | |
 | Billy Pierce (L) | 3.3 | 52,045 | |
| Total votes: 1,572,241 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector
Incumbent Ann Harris Bennett defeated Jolanda Jones and Jack Terence in the Democratic primary for Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ann Harris Bennett | 58.3 | 157,161 |
| Jolanda Jones | 37.8 | 101,760 | |
| Jack Terence | 3.9 | 10,590 | ||
| Total votes: 269,511 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector
Chris Daniel advanced from the Republican primary for Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Chris Daniel | 100.0 | 155,745 |
| Total votes: 155,745 | |||
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Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector
Billy Pierce advanced from the Libertarian convention for Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector on March 14, 2020.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | | Billy Pierce (L) |
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2015
Four seats on the Houston Independent School District Board of Trustees were up for general election on November 3, 2015. The seats are elected by district.
The seats of District II incumbent Rhonda Skillern-Jones, District III incumbent Manuel Rodriguez Jr., District IV incumbent Paula Harris and District VIII incumbent Juliet Stipeche were up for election.[4]
Skillern-Jones, Rodriguez and Stipeche filed for re-election to their respective seats. In the District II race, Skillern-Jones faced Youlette McCullough, Darlene Smith and Larry Williams. Because a majority was not won, Skillern-Jones faced Williams in a runoff election on December 12, 2015.[5] She won the runoff election. Skillern-Jones was first elected to the board in 2011.[6] In District III, Rodriguez was set to compete against two challengers: Ramiro Fonseca and Jose Leal. Mirroring District II, a majority was not won in the District III race and a runoff also occurred on December 12, 2015, with Rodriguez up against Leal.[5] Rodriguez went on to win the runoff election. He was first elected to the board in 2003.[6]
Stipeche had the least challengers competing against her with just Diana Davila aiming to unseat her. Stipeche was first elected in 2010 to finish out an unexpired term and then re-elected in 2011.[6] However, Davila was successful in securing the District VIII seat and thus is a newcomer on the board. Since Harris did not file for re-election in District IV, four candidates filed to replace her. They were Davetta Daniels, Jolanda Jones, Ann McCoy and Larry McKinzie. Harris had served on the board since 2007.[6] Jones won the seat for District IV.
Results
| Houston Independent School District, District IV, General Election, 2015 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Jolanda Jones |
57.8% | 12,221 |
| Ann McCoy | 20.7% | 4,385 |
| Davetta Daniels | 11.9% | 2,517 |
| Larry McKinzie | 9.6% | 2,027 |
| Total Votes | 21,150 | |
| Source: Harris County Clerk, "Cumulative Report-Official", accessed December 16, 2015 | ||
Funding
Jones reported no contributions or expenditures to the Texas Ethics Commission as of October 29,2015.[7]
Campaign themes
2025
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2024
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2022
Regular election
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Special election
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2020
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Campaign finance summary
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2024
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2023
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See also
2025 Elections
External links
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Candidate U.S. House Texas District 18 |
Officeholder Texas House of Representatives District 147 |
Personal |
Footnotes
- ↑ LinkedIn, "Jolanda Jones," accessed June 3, 2022
- ↑ Jolanda Jones for HISD Trustee IV, "About Jolanda Jones", accessed October 22, 2015
- ↑ Ballotpedia's Elections Team, “Email communication with Jolanda Jones," July 3, 2022
- ↑ Houston Independent School District, "Board of Trustees," accessed January 29, 2015
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Houston Independent School District, "HISD Board of Education Election Results," accessed December 2, 2015
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Houston Independent School District, "Election Information," accessed August 25, 2015
- ↑ Texas Ethics Commission, "Search Campaign Finance Reports", accessed October 29, 2015
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Garnet Coleman (D) |
Texas House of Representatives District 147 2022-Present |
Succeeded by - |
| Preceded by - |
Houston Independent School District, District IV 2016-2020 |
Succeeded by - |
