Representative Jo Ella Hoye

Kansas Future Caucus (D)

Rep. Jo Ella Hoye is a stay-at-home-mom and committed public servant. She’s held various local government management positions in the public, private, and non-profit sectors; most recently as a Senior Analyst in the Johnson County Manager’s Office. She volunteered for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America for over three and a half years, including as Kansas Chapter Leader. Their strategic team moved the needle on gun safety in Kansas with bipartisan support. Her continued presence at the Statehouse influenced the passage of sensible gun legislation, earning her the nomination by Everytown for Gun Safety for the 2018 Professional Women in Advocacy Excellence in Advocacy of a State Issue Campaign Award. 

She is involved with the Shawnee Mission School District’s My Volunteer Pal program, she serves as Vice President for Ways and Means of the Rising Star PTA, and she’s Vice Chair of the Lenexa Planning Commission. Rep. Hoye was a member of the City of Lenexa Complete Streets Advisory Board and the Citizen Advisory Committee for Lenexa City Center Grand Opening, a former member of the City of Mission’s Parks and Recreation Commission, Chair of Mission’s Downtown Visioning Committee as well as the Swimming Pool Task Force, and served on the Board of Trustees for Shawnee Mission Unitarian Universalist Church. She was a part of Leadership Northeast class of 2014. 

Born in Lincoln, NE, Rep. Hoye is a graduate from Nebraska City High School and Cornell College. She earned my Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of Kansas. Brian, William (her fifth grader), and her live in Lenexa. 

She vows to be respectful of her constituents and colleagues. At the end of the day, we are all neighbors living and working in the wonderful State of Kansas; we can’t let our differences divide us. AD ASTRA PER ASPERA