Janette Jones (August 1931 – October 1989) was a Scottish nationalist politician.
[2] She joined the SNP and won a seat on Kilsyth Burgh Council.
[5] In writing about the leaders of the SNP, James Mitchell acknowledges that, like 20th-century Scottish politics in general, the SNP leadership was male-dominated, but names Jones alongside Margaret Ewing, Isobel Lindsay and Margo Macdonald as the women who contributed "in important ways to the party's development".
[1] Jones died in Strathcarron hospice, Denny in October 1989.
[6] In 2004, when Winifred Ewing wrote a tribute to her in her own autobiography, describing her as "one of the most loved activists the party ever had".