Jon Merritt, Commission President

After serving 28 years in the Financial Services industry, Jon Merritt has retired, in order to devote more time to his many volunteer activities. In his prior career as a television producer, he received an EMMY® award for Best Educational Television Series in 1994. As a video producer for the cities of  West Hollywood and Los Angeles, among many other projects, he created an award-nominated documentary early in the AIDS crisis, and two award-nominated documentaries on the restoration of the beloved Angels Flight funicular railway. 

Committed to helping his community prosper, he is active with a number of volunteer organizations. If you asked him, he’d say that his most gratifying experience was traveling with a 44-person group of volunteers to Gulfport, Mississippi, rebuilding homes that were damaged by hurricane Katrina. 

Jon, a Los Angeles native, lives in West Los Angeles (Council District 5) with his wife and three children.