Jenny Jones | |
Office: | Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South West |
Term Start: | 1 May 1997 |
Term End: | 14 May 2001 |
Predecessor: | Nicholas Budgen |
Successor: | Rob Marris |
Birth Date: | 8 February 1948 |
Birthname: | Jennifer Grace Bew |
Nationality: | British |
Party: | Labour |
Alma Mater: | University of Wolverhampton |
Jennifer Grace Jones (née Bew; born 8 February 1948) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Jones was selected as a Labour candidate through an all-women shortlist.[1] She was elected as Member of Parliament in the 1997 general election for the Wolverhampton South West constituency, defeating the Conservative incumbent Nicholas Budgen with a majority of 5,118. However, fairly early on in Labour's first term in government, she announced that she would not be seeking re-election at the 2001 election. She was succeeded by Rob Marris.
Prior to entering Parliament, she worked as a social worker and had served on Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council from 1991 to 1997. In 2002 she was made an honorary fellow of the University of Wolverhampton.