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[[File:Tishaura Jones tight crop.jpg|thumb|274x274px|Tishaura Jones speaking at an event in October 2017]]
'''Tishaura Jones''' is the mayor of [[St. Louis, Missouri]], and one of two mayoral candidates to advance from the first [[Approval-based primary election methods|approval-based primary election]] in [[Missouri]] (see "[[2021 St. Louis mayoral election]]")
'''Tishaura Oneda Jones''' ({{IPAc-en|t|ɪ|ʃ|ɑː|r|ʌ}} {{respell|tish|ARE|ə}}; born March 10, 1972) is an American politician who has served as the [[Mayor of St. Louis|mayor of St. Louis, Missouri]] since April 2021. A member of the [[Missouri Democratic Party]], Jones served from 2008 to 2013 in the [[Missouri House of Representatives]]; and as Treasurer of [[St. Louis|the City of St. Louis]] from 2013 to 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |last=admin |title=Home |url=https://www.stltreasurer.org/home/|quote="St. Louis – April 15, 2021 – on the heels of a historic win for Mayor-Elect Tishaura O. Jones, The St. Louis City Treasurer’s Office is honored to announce the appointment of Adam L. Layne as the next Treasurer of St. Louis." | date=April 15, 2021 | access-date=2022-05-05 |website=St. Louis Treasurers Office |language=en-US}}</ref>
Born in St. Louis to a former city [[comptroller]], Jones studied at [[Hampton University]] in [[Virginia]], returning to St. Louis upon graduating in 1994. Following a failed attempt to start a restaurant that left her bankrupt, she entered nursing, graduating from the [[Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice|Saint Louis University College for Public Health]] with a [[Master of Health Administration]] in 2001 and working for [[Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital]] for two years.
Jones entered politics in 2002, when she was appointed to the Democratic Party Central Committee for [[Ward 8, St. Louis City|St. Louis's eighth ward]]. In 2008, she was elected to represent Missouri's 63rd District in the state legislature, defeating [[independent politician|independent candidate]] Nels Williams with 85.4 percent of the vote. After running unopposed for [[2010 Missouri House of Representatives election|re-election to the House in 2010]], Jones ran for St. Louis Treasurer in 2012, and won the general election with 77.9 percent of the vote. She was re-elected as treasurer in 2016 and 2020.
As treasurer, Jones was credited with using the office, which had been widely regarded as an unimportant and scandal-ridden bureaucratic position, to start new programs in the city.<ref name=PowerList>{{Cite web |url=https://www.stlmag.com/news/Power-List-2012-100-People-Who-Are-Shaping-St-Louis-Today/ |title=Power List 2012: 100 People Who Are Shaping St. Louis Today |date=December 21, 2012 |website=[[St. Louis Magazine]] |access-date=November 28, 2020}}</ref> These include a program that educates citizens on [[financial literacy]], and a program that uses [[parking meter]] revenue to give public school [[kindergarten]] students a [[savings account]] to help them afford college education. Jones also received national attention for her responses to media criticism of her, most notably by ''[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]]'' [[editorial board]], which she has variously described as [[racism|racist]], [[sexism|sexist]], and [[media bias|unfair]].
[[2017 St. Louis mayoral election|In 2017]], Jones, a self-described [[progressivism in the United States|progressive]], lost a bid to become Mayor of St. Louis after being narrowly defeated in the city's Democratic primary by [[moderate]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/a-new-mayor-will-lead-us-forward-krewson-won-t-run-for-reelection/article_95566c44-ec8b-5fe6-955f-5961f85fce04.html |title='A new mayor will lead us forward': Krewson won't run for reelection |quote=A self-described political moderate, Krewson faced fierce criticism from activists, progressives and Black officials who called for bolder leadership and were angry with her administration's response to [[2017 St. Louis protests|protests after the 2017 acquittal of former St. Louis police Officer Jason Stockley]].|date=November 19, 2020 |last=Benchaabane |first=Nassim |website=[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]] |access-date=December 2, 2020}}</ref> [[Lyda Krewson]]. On November 4, 2020, after being elected treasurer for a third term, Jones announced she would once again campaign for the mayor's office. She won [[2021 St. Louis mayoral election|the election]] against [[St. Louis Board of Aldermen|St. Louis Alderwoman]] Cara Spencer on April 7, 2021, and was sworn in on April 20. She is the third African-American, the second woman, and the first African-American woman to hold the position.{{efn|[[Lyda Krewson]], who is white, was elected [[Mayor of St. Louis]] in 2017 and became the first woman to hold that office. Before Jones, there were two African-American mayors of St. Louis, both of them men: [[Freeman Bosley Jr.]], elected in 1993, and [[Clarence Harmon]], elected in 1997.}}
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