Prior to elected office, Jones served as an agricultural education teacher at Harrison Central High School.
[2] Former State Representative Andy Thompson's term expired at the end of 2018.
Thompson had served 8 years in the Ohio House and was term limited per the Ohio Constitution causing an open seat in the 95th district.
[3] Unopposed in the Republican primary, Jones went on to win the seat with more than 65% of the vote.
In 2021, Jone sponsored legislation to ban the teaching that any individual is “inherently racist,” that any individual “bears responsibility for actions committed in the past by the same race or sex,” or that slavery “constitutes the true founding” of the United States.