Jolanda Jones

Jolanda Jones

Democratic Party

Texas House of Representatives District 147

Tenure

2022 - Present

Term ends

2025

Years in position

2

Predecessor

Garnet Coleman

Prior offices

Houston Independent School District, District IV

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Compensation

Base salary

$7,200/year

Per diem

$221/day

Elections and appointments

Last elected

November 5, 2024

Education

High school

Alief Elsik High School

Bachelor's

University of Houston, 1989

Law

University of Houston, 1995

Personal

Profession

Lawyer

Contact

Official website

Campaign website

Campaign Facebook

Campaign Twitter

Campaign Instagram

Personal Facebook

Personal LinkedIn

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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 14, 2025.

Jones (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the Texas House of Representatives to represent District 147. She won in the general election on November 5, 2024.

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. Jones served on the Houston City Council from January 2008 to January 2012.

Committee assignments

2023-2024

Jones was assigned to the following committees:

• County Affairs Committee
• Public Health Committee

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Elections

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)	75.9	38,486
		Claudio Gutierrez (R)	24.1	12,194

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. Source	Total votes: 50,680
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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

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	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

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 2,138
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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

• Damien Thaddeus Jones (R)

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

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	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

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	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

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 2,082
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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

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 4,455
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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

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	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

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	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

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	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

See also: Houston Independent School District elections (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.

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. She won the runoff election. Skillern-Jones was first elected to the board in 2011. 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. Rodriguez went on to win the runoff election. He was first elected to the board in 2003.

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. 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. 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.

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Regular election

Jolanda Jones did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

Special election

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2020

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Campaign finance summary

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Jolanda Jones campaign contribution history

Year	Office	Status	Contributions	Expenditures
2024*	Texas House of Representatives District 147	Won general	$84,825	$97,547
2022	Texas House of Representatives District 147	Won general	$481,343	$437,978
Grand total			$566,167	$535,525
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete

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Preceded by Garnet Coleman (D)	Texas House of Representatives District 147 2022-Present	Succeeded by -
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