Ken Jacob (born January 23, 1949) is an American Democratic politician who served in the Missouri Senate and the Missouri House of Representatives from 1983 until 2004.
He also has master's degrees in education, counseling, and public administration and a J.D.
He previously worked as an executive director of an adolescent treatment center in Columbia, Missouri.
[1] Jacob resigned from the Missouri Senate to take a seat to the state Labor and Industrial Relations Commission under Governor Bob Holden.
In 2013, Governor Jay Nixon appointed Jacob acting director of the Missouri's Division of Employment Security.