[2] The Bollinger County Chamber of Commerce gave him the "One Year VIP Business Achievement Award" in 1998 for his leadership and service to the community.
[2][8] Jetton told The Southeast Missourian newspaper in July 2011 that he had remarried[9] and is working for civil engineering company in Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
The master's program focused on the politics and economics of eastern and southeastern Europe with sections on the how refugees are impacting the European Union[14] Jetton is a member of the evangelical Christian group, Gideons International.
[5][6][15] Jetton graduated from Charleston High School in 1986 [16] and from Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri in May 1990,[16] with a double major in history and political science[1] and was student body president his senior year.
[17] After college, Jetton joined Congressman Bill Emerson's campaign team as a field coordinator, and gained valuable experience in local grass roots politics.
[17][1] In Jetton's first term as speaker he launched Common Sense Conservative Consulting which advised some people who were seeking legislation in the state.
While Jetton acknowledged the ban was unenforceable because of the Supreme Court's Lawrence v. Texas ruling, he said, "Thanks to that deletion, it is now legal to engage in deviate sexual intercourse with someone of the same sex here in Missouri.
Jetton's lawyer in a February 24, 2010 hearing released text messages from the woman implying that she might be open to rough sex.
[9] The woman at the hearing said the texts were meant to be playful and had been taken out of context, however it has been shown that she and Jetton established a safeword of "green balloons", a common practice when engaging in sadomasochistic sex.
Jetton is accused of telling the woman the following morning, "You should have said 'green balloons," a reference to the safeword they had established before meeting as a safety measure.
While seeking full custody of his children, the accuser's ex-husband was quoted as saying that the accuser, who had attempted to file a restraining order against him, "suffers from various and sundry mental diseases and defects" and "is at risk of exposing the minor children to inappropriate behavior on her part and that of men with whom she continues to have casual sexual relationships with.
"[30][29] Following the arrest he closed Rod Jetton & Associate, which catered to many high-profile clients, including Mitt Romney.
[4] The bill introduced by Matt Bartle would have enacted a $5 per customer admission fee for strip clubs, adult movie houses and other sexually oriented businesses, along with a 20 percent tax on the revenue.
After the bill was introduced a political action committee with connections to Jetton adviser Don Lograsso accepted a $35,000 donation from the adult entertainment industry.
[40] After leaving politics, Jetton fell into financial trouble, stating "I got an application in to drive a garbage truck, and I got turned down to sell appliances, ...
He has said that his time in the House of Representatives was a hectic self-indulgent period, that increasingly led him to a lifestyle standing in opposition to his personal beliefs.
[13][34][18][7][1] In 2013 Jetton co-founded The Missouri Times,[46][7] a newspaper intended to report on Jefferson City politics in an unbiased and bipartisan manner.
[47][42] Jetton is a partner in Second Act Strategies, an organization that provides team building seminars focused on crisis management.
The skills presented during the seminars include: crisis assessment techniques, resource planning, on-camera media and message development training, ethics instruction, advice on building strategic alliances with opinion leaders and repairing reputation damage, leadership training on how to remove emotion from decisions during high-stakes-crisis situations, strategies to rebuild trust post-crisis, and online strategies for crisis diffusion.
[48] In 2013, Jetton co-authored The Recovering Politician's Twelve Step Program to Survive Crisis along with thirteen other authors.