Janice Arnold-Jones

On April 15, 2013, she was appointed by Mayor Richard J. Berry to the Albuquerque City Council, filling a seat vacated by Council member Michael Cook, who resigned earlier in the month. She said she would seek election to a full term as a council member in the October 8, 2013 city election.

Earlier in the year, Albuquerque voters in a mail-in election approved an ordinance requiring 50% of the vote to avoid a runoff election, and in the general election on October 8, 2013, Arnold-Jones went on to win 49% of the vote, missing the 50% mark by 77 votes, triggering a runoff. In the runoff election on November 19, 2013, Arnold-Jones was defeated 51% to 49% by Democrat Diane Gibson.

After redistricting and having served over 20 years, incumbent Republican State Representative George Buffett of New Mexico's 24th House District decided to retire. Representative Buffet suggest she run and she subsequently defeated Democrat Marilynn Cooper 59%-41%. In 2004, she was unopposed and won re-election to a second term. In 2006, she won re-election to a third term with 55% of the vote. In 2008, she again was unopposed and won re-election to a fourth term.

She married Ensign John L. Jones from the US Navy Reserve in July 1975 and departed Albuquerque as a Navy wife, returning in July 1994 when her husband took a final posting in the Logistics Directorate at Field Command, Defense Nuclear Agency, Kirtland AFB NM. During those years she owned two businesses and was a community activist everywhere they lived, working on issues ranging from rape intervention and counseling, education, community safety and served for almost 20 years as a soccer coach in Virginia, Rhode Island, Florida, and New Mexico.

After incumbent Democrat, U.S. Congressman Martin Heinrich of New Mexico's 1st congressional district, decided to retire in order to run for U.S. Senate, Arnold-Jones decided to run. She initially faced Albuquerque City Councilman Dan Lewis and new resident (and Army veteran) Gary Smith in the Republican primary, but Lewis dropped his candidacy after under performing in the Republican pre-primary convention and Smith was removed from the ballot when a New Mexico District Judge sustained a challenge, by 8 Republican voters, to the validity of Smith's petition signatures so she was formally unopposed in the primary. She faced Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham in the general election and was defeated 59% to 41%.

Janice E. Arnold-Jones (born March 20, 1952) is an American politician who served as the New Mexico State Representative for the 24th district from 2003 to 2011. She is a member of the Republican Party.