Ruth Elizabeth Jones McClendon (5 October 1943 – 19 December 2017) was an American politician.
McClendon was born in Houston on 5 October 1943, and graduated from Phillis Wheatley High School before attending Texas Southern University as an undergraduate and earning a master's degree from Webster University.
[1][2] She originally contested the open seat of Lou Nelle Sutton in 1988, but lost District 120 of the Texas House of Representatives to Karyne Jones Conley.
[3] Between June 1993 and August 1996, McClendon was a member of the San Antonio City Council from District 2.
[8] She resigned from the state legislature on 31 January 2016,[1][7] and died in San Antonio of brain cancer on 19 December 2017.