Jon Merritt, Commission President

Jon Merritt is currently a Senior Vice President-Investments at Wells Fargo Advisors. 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.