In 2012, Jon Echols was elected to represent House District 90 in the Oklahoma House of Representatives. He was appointed by the Speaker to serve as Assistant Majority Whip and was the only freshman to serve in such a House leadership position. In 2014, Echols was appointed by the Speaker to serve as the Vice-Chair of the Judiciary and Civil Procedure Committee continuing to serve as an Assistant Majority Whip. He is currently the House majority floor leader.
Jon Echols graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a Political Science degree. He then went on to Oklahoma City University School of Law, where he received numerous academic awards and graduated first in his class.
Echols is an entrepreneur with a heart for small business. The lifetime Oklahoman has started and operated several Oklahoma businesses, and through them, he now employs hundreds of Oklahomans. In addition to his small businesses, he also practices law with his family's firm, Echols and Associates, and serves as an adjunct law professor at OCU. Jon Echols, his wife Kristen, and their three children attend Capitol Hill Baptist Church.