Mark Jeffreys
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Mark Jeffreys is a member of the Cincinnati City Council in Ohio. He assumed office on January 4, 2022.
Jeffreys ran for re-election to the Cincinnati City Council in Ohio. He won in the general election on November 4, 2025.
Biography
Mark Jeffreys was born in New York, New York. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1992 and an M.B.A. from Georgetown University in 2001. His professional experience includes working as the founder and CEO of the start-up 4Sight. He previously worked for P&G for 16 years. He also worked at USDEC and on Capitol Hill for two members of Congress for three years.[1]
Elections
2025
See also: City elections in Cincinnati, Ohio (2025)
General election
General election for Cincinnati City Council (9 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Cincinnati City Council on November 4, 2025.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney (Nonpartisan) | 9.0 | 43,971 |
| ✔ | Scotty Johnson (Nonpartisan) | 8.3 | 40,781 | |
| ✔ | Meeka Owens (Nonpartisan) | 8.1 | 39,826 | |
| ✔ |  | Anna Albi (Nonpartisan) | 8.0 | 39,028 |
| ✔ |  | Mark Jeffreys (Nonpartisan) | 7.8 | 38,380 |
| ✔ |  | Seth Walsh (Nonpartisan) | 7.2 | 35,176 |
| ✔ | Jeff Cramerding (Nonpartisan) | 7.1 | 34,870 | |
| ✔ | Evan Nolan (Nonpartisan) | 7.1 | 34,790 | |
| ✔ |  | Ryan James (Nonpartisan) | 6.9 | 33,689 |
 | Liz Keating (Nonpartisan)  | 5.0 | 24,526 | |
 | Christopher Smitherman (Nonpartisan) | 3.6 | 17,496 | |
| Laketa Cole (Nonpartisan) | 3.1 | 15,267 | ||
| Linda Matthews (Nonpartisan) | 2.1 | 10,521 | ||
 | Don Driehaus (Nonpartisan) | 2.0 | 9,928 | |
 | Gary Favors (Nonpartisan) | 2.0 | 9,898 | |
| Steve Goodin (Nonpartisan) | 2.0 | 9,690 | ||
 | Dale Mallory (Nonpartisan) | 1.6 | 7,966 | |
| Dawn Johnson (Nonpartisan) | 1.5 | 7,270 | ||
| Aaron Weiner (Nonpartisan) | 1.3 | 6,478 | ||
| Raffel Prophett (Nonpartisan) | 1.3 | 6,374 | ||
 | Stephan Pryor (Nonpartisan) | 1.1 | 5,233 | |
| Jerry Corbett (Nonpartisan) | 0.9 | 4,283 | ||
| Audricia Brooks (Nonpartisan) | 0.9 | 4,190 | ||
| Donald Washington (Nonpartisan) | 0.8 | 3,879 | ||
| Brandon Nixon (Nonpartisan) | 0.6 | 3,036 | ||
 | Kevin Farmer (Nonpartisan) | 0.6 | 3,011 | |
| Brian Ennix (Nonpartisan) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 51 | ||
| Total votes: 489,608 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Gwen Summers (Nonpartisan)
Endorsements
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2023
See also: City elections in Cincinnati, Ohio (2023)
General election
General election for Cincinnati City Council (9 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Cincinnati City Council on November 7, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney (Nonpartisan) | 11.0 | 49,822 |
| ✔ | Meeka Owens (Nonpartisan) | 11.0 | 49,783 | |
| ✔ |  | Reggie Harris (Nonpartisan) | 10.9 | 49,339 |
| ✔ |  | Victoria Parks (Nonpartisan) | 10.3 | 46,341 |
| ✔ | Scotty Johnson (Nonpartisan) | 10.1 | 45,659 | |
| ✔ | | Mark Jeffreys (Nonpartisan) | 10.0 | 45,295 |
| ✔ | | Anna Albi (Nonpartisan) | 9.9 | 44,770 |
| ✔ | Jeff Cramerding (Nonpartisan) | 9.5 | 42,650 | |
| ✔ | | Seth Walsh (Nonpartisan) | 9.0 | 40,641 |
| Liz Keating (Nonpartisan) | 8.2 | 36,789 | |
| Total votes: 451,089 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jaime Castle (Nonpartisan)
Endorsements
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2021
See also: City elections in Cincinnati, Ohio (2021)
General election
General election for Cincinnati City Council (9 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Cincinnati City Council on November 2, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney (Nonpartisan) | 7.5 | 28,672 |
| ✔ |  | Greg Landsman (Nonpartisan) | 7.0 | 26,996 |
| ✔ | | Reggie Harris (Nonpartisan) | 6.7 | 25,828 |
| ✔ | Meeka Owens (Nonpartisan) | 6.3 | 24,177 | |
| ✔ | | Victoria Parks (Nonpartisan) | 5.9 | 22,879 |
| ✔ | Scotty Johnson (Nonpartisan) | 5.3 | 20,265 | |
| ✔ | Jeff Cramerding (Nonpartisan) | 5.1 | 19,695 | |
| ✔ | | Mark Jeffreys (Nonpartisan) | 4.9 | 18,772 |
| ✔ | | Liz Keating (Nonpartisan) | 4.5 | 17,497 |
 | Michelle Dillingham (Nonpartisan) | 4.1 | 15,910 | |
| Phillip O’Neal (Nonpartisan) | 4.0 | 15,295 | ||
 | Kevin Flynn (Nonpartisan) | 3.6 | 13,888 | |
 | Elizabeth Sundermann (Nonpartisan) | 3.6 | 13,830 | |
| Steve Goodin (Nonpartisan) | 3.3 | 12,794 | ||
| Jim Tarbell (Nonpartisan) | 3.1 | 11,734 | ||
 | Brian Garry (Nonpartisan) | 2.7 | 10,258 | |
 | Tom Brinkman Jr. (Nonpartisan) | 2.5 | 9,805 | |
| John Williams (Nonpartisan) | 2.2 | 8,367 | ||
| LaKeisha Cook (Nonpartisan) | 1.9 | 7,224 | ||
| Jackie Frondorf (Nonpartisan) | 1.8 | 6,947 | ||
 | Jaime Castle (Nonpartisan) | 1.7 | 6,395 | |
| Peterson Mingo (Nonpartisan) | 1.4 | 5,278 | ||
 | Evan Holt (Nonpartisan) | 1.3 | 5,139 | |
 | Kurt Grossman (Nonpartisan) | 1.3 | 4,975 | |
| Bill Frost (Nonpartisan) | 1.2 | 4,695 | ||
| Galen Gordon (Nonpartisan) | 1.1 | 4,210 | ||
| Te’Airea Powell (Nonpartisan) | 1.1 | 4,109 | ||
| Stacey Smith (Nonpartisan) | 1.1 | 4,109 | ||
| Jalen Alford (Nonpartisan) | 0.8 | 3,166 | ||
| Rob Harris II (Nonpartisan) | 0.7 | 2,651 | ||
 | Andrew Kennedy (Nonpartisan) | 0.6 | 2,439 | |
| John Maher (Nonpartisan) | 0.6 | 2,158 | ||
| Logan Simmering (Nonpartisan) | 0.4 | 1,652 | ||
| K.A. Heard Jr. (Nonpartisan) | 0.4 | 1,496 | ||
| Nick Jabin (Nonpartisan) | 0.4 | 1,358 | ||
| Total votes: 384,663 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Charlie Winburn (Nonpartisan)
- Derek Bauman (Nonpartisan)
- Darius Clay (Nonpartisan)
- James Jenkins (Nonpartisan)
- Linda Matthews (Nonpartisan)
- Robert Moore (Nonpartisan)
- Victor Phillips (Nonpartisan)
- Nathaniyah Yisrael (Nonpartisan)
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2025
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2023
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2021
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Mark is the son of an immigrant. He grew up working poor and on food stamps. But he had a Network of Support and opportunity including a union laborer job that afforded him the opportunity to earn his way through college. He went on to spend 16 years at P&G after business school leading brands such as Gillette, and then the past four years as an entrepreneur starting two companies including the one that he currently lead: 4Sight. Service has always been a core part of who he is - Mark is a Trustee on Clifton Town Meeting and the Cincinnati Parks Foundation boards. He also started the non-profit go Vibrant (www.govibrant.org) and serves as Chair of the Board. He has made significant contributions to Cincinnati: building the goVibrantscape at Smale Park (Foot Piano & Flying Pig), the city's 2nd protected bike lane on Clifton Avenue, bringing athletics to hundreds of Cincinnati Public School children, getting thousands of people walking through the goVibrant Million Step Challenge, and making streets safer in Clifton. Mark is married to Pamela Holmes, a pediatrician, and they have 4 children. Mark's two core values are the belief that we all succeed through the help of others and that to whom much is given much is expected. Those values are what he will bring with him on City Council as he strives to build a Cincinnati with equal opportunity for ALL.
- Making Cincinnati the Greenest city in America - Mark has a plan to convert the city's feet to electric & install 500 EV charging stations. He also wants to add 100+ miles of protected bike lanes in the city,. With Cincinnati having the 11th worst air in the country, these changes will improve health, create good paying jobs and save the city and residents money.
- Making our streets safer - Mark has a plan to make our streets safer. This includes Limiting speeds in residential areas, Enforcing speed limits, implementing Active transportation policies to enable people to walk/bike more easily and to Deploy proven tools to calm traffic such as road diets, bump outs, speed humps, etc. Mark has led in this area on Clifton Town Meeting - he will bring some of that expertise to bear on City Council. He will also leverage his Collaborative Leadership style to bring stakeholders together in order to address the urgent issue of gun violence which is tearing our community apart.
- Thriving neighborhoods - Mark will take his experience at P&G and as an entrepreneur to help lead work to create conditions for our economy to thrive across the 52 neighborhoods via enabling start-ups and creating conditions that would foster growth among larger companies and boomerang employees who are working remotely. He will work with community councils on enabling them to create bottoms-up Community Plans that let them craft the type of community they want to be in the future. This also means investing in our parks and rec centers - key enablers of creating opportunity for many of our children and families.
Mark is most passionate about creating a Forward Looking City - a city that is poised to thrive in the 10+ year period from now. Of course we need to build what we have today, but Mark is passionate about seeing around the corner and setting our community up to thrive for years to come. That means marrying 'jobs of the future' with vocational training and partnering with CPS and labor unions in that area. It means investing in Green Jobs and creating a city where employees and employers want to locate.
I look up to my father, mother and mother-in-law. My father is an immigrant from Holland who came here without a dime in his pocket. He worked 3-4 jobs as a janitor while my mom raised 4 kids. When my father was in the hospital with a workplace accident for months on end, my mother relied on food stamps to get by. We went out to eat once/year as a special treat, ate the day-old bread, etc. While we did not have much materially, my parents taught me the value of hard work. When I lost my mother to a sudden heart attack at 15 years old, my father was there for me to help me get through it.
I also looked up to my mother-in-law. She like my mother was a strong willed woman. She left Poland in April 1940 - we're Jewish so that's relevant. It took her family a year to get to the U.S. through Russia and Japan. She was someone very well read and engaged in public policy. She died in December 2018 after she got run over by a car in NY at the age of 81. She lived a full life of intellectual pursuit, engagement in the arts, etc. She like my parents are a model that I would like to follow.
I also looked up to my mother-in-law. She like my mother was a strong willed woman. She left Poland in April 1940 - we're Jewish so that's relevant. It took her family a year to get to the U.S. through Russia and Japan. She was someone very well read and engaged in public policy. She died in December 2018 after she got run over by a car in NY at the age of 81. She lived a full life of intellectual pursuit, engagement in the arts, etc. She like my parents are a model that I would like to follow.
Integrity - being a public servant. Not all public officials are public servants. Serving the public starts with a mindset of selflessness - serving the pubic vs private gain. I will always ask myself "who are you serving" - as a central question.
Hard work - I am someone who is driven to make a difference through hard work. I wake up at 4am every day, work for an hour or two and then go for a run. I have done that most of my life - so I could be there also for my kids when they were younger. That ability to juggle while working hard is something that I think will be critical while in office.
A Greener Cincinnati - making our air cleaner to breath while creating good paying jobs.
A Safer Cincinnati - redesigning our streets for people so we save lives.
I remember when Ronald Reagan got shot. I was on the street in NYC and a reporter asked me about it. I was 11 at the time.
My first job was cleaning toilets and mopping apartment buildings (10-15 stories) in NYC where I grew up. That started when I was 10 years old and continued until I was 16 year old.
How Great Thou Art - I went to the House of Joy yesterday, an African American church. They played How Great Thou Art, which I find beautiful, with a sax. It's been stuck in my head since
Yes I do. I believe it's important for public servants to have "tri-sector leadership" experience: experience in the public, private and non-profit sectors. I have all of the above. I spent several years working on Capitol Hill as a legislative aide in Congress, have worked in the non-profit world including starting one, and spent 16 years at P&G as well as 4 years as an entrepreneur. That Tri-Sector leadership I believe is important because I can understand the motivations and goals of different stakeholders more deeply having lived them. That enables me to pull stakeholders together to solve vexing problems.
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See also
2025 Elections
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Footnotes
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