Susan Jones is a longtime city planner and public administrator with more than 25 years of experience serving the City of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County. During her career, she administered zoning and subdivision ordinances, drafted policy, and supported the County Manager as well as numerous boards and commissions. Her service includes the Bernalillo County Planning Commission, the County Development Review Board, the City of Albuquerque Environmental Planning Commission, the Extraterritorial Planning Commission, and the Planned Growth Strategy Task Force.

Born in Washington, D.C., Susan grew up in Alexandria, Virginia, and Albuquerque. Her childhood included extensive travel with her family and summers spent at a cabin on a Colorado trout stream built by her father. She earned a B.S. from New Mexico State University in 1981 and a Master of Regional Planning from Cornell University in 1984, where her thesis explored the history of resource management in the Navajo checkerboard region.

Susan stewards her conserved four acre farm in Bernalillo County’s far North Valley, where she is committed to improving soil health, wildlife habitat, and plant diversity. She also maintains a 70 year old log cabin and 15 acres in Colorado, where she undertakes ongoing wildfire mitigation and serves as Secretary/Treasurer of her community’s water and road association.

Her interests include public lands policy, land grant history, and archaeology. She is an active writer of blog posts and short stories and is currently developing a work of historical fiction centered on former U.S. Senator Bronson M. Cutting of New Mexico and his era (1888–1935).