He met his wife, Mary Lou Reece, while a student at the University of Kansas, and they were married 18 August 1979. She is the president of Reece Construction Company, with offices in Salina, Kansas and Prosper, Texas. The couple has three children and five grandchildren.
Jones' younger brother, L. Gregory Jones, is the Williams Professor of Theology and Christian Ministry at Duke Divinity School, Senior Fellow of the Fuqua-Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics, and Senior Fellow of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.[1] HE IS NOW PRESIDENT OF BELMONT UNIV IN NASHVILLE, TN
Jones was endorsed for election to the Episcopacy by the North Texas Conference Delegation to the South Central Jurisdictional Conference and was elected in July 2004. He was assigned to the Kansas Episcopal Area, with offices in Wichita, Kansas. He was initially very popular, particularly with younger members of the Kansas East and Kansas West Annual Conferences.
Jones took over the new Great Plains Conference, which was formed in 2014 by combining the former Kansas East, Kansas West and Nebraska United Methodist conferences.
In 2016 he was assigned to the Texas Annual Conference (Houston Area) where he served until January 2023.[3]
In January 2023 Scott Jones resigned as a Bishop of the UMC and withdrew his conference membership to unite with The Global Methodist Church.[4]
