Having jumped in with both feet by joining PLVC in 2024 as Secretary, I’m stating my candidacy to serve as a director for the next term. Born in St. Louis, I moved to Port Ludlow from Colorado in 2023 and love being a Pacific Northwesterner. During my life I’ve done many things, including earning my B.A. in Technical Theater from Colorado State University in 1985 and working extensively in professional and community theater, being a travel agent, a long-term administrative assistant and accidental techie and webmistress for a non-profit in Denver, a production coordinator for a custom color photo lab, graphic designer, voice actor, and owned my own successful desktop publishing business. I love Nature and the Outdoors, music of many varieties, cryptozoology and searching for Bigfoot, reading, the pursuit of knowledge, and would like to get back to drawing if I can ever unpack my art supplies. PLVC 2.0 began as a shared vision to enhance the community and is a lot of hard but very worthwhile work, and I look forward to helping carry the momentum forward.  

I would like to be a Port Ludlow Village Council Director, serving our community in all its needs. The Council is, in part, dedicated to ensuring that all Port Ludlow residents feel protected and have a feeling of belonging in their community. I would like to help promote that vision.

We moved to Port Ludlow in March, 2025. After living on the west coast for over 30 years, my husband, Gregg, and I decided to look toward the future and imagine the next chapter and what that might look like. Like some who live in Port Ludlow, we sort of stumbled upon its existence and became quickly enamored. Mountains, water, forests, and community all made choosing our home in Port Ludlow a very easy choice.

Now retired, I have an extensive background in non-profit management; most of my career working with the CPA community. I worked in three states - TX, CA, and OR - to provide continuing education opportunities to CPAs throughout each state. I am an alumnus of both Franklin College and Indiana University. I have excellent interpersonal and organizational skill sets, and I am a trained group facilitator. I enjoy reading, gardening, cooking and walking the PL trails. We share our home with two dogs and a parrot.

I ask for your vote and hope you will share your community joys and concerns with me if I am elected. Thank you for your consideration.

If elected, Colleen Coulter Jones looks forward to becoming a part of the PLVC. She moved back to thecommunity she was born and raised because the area means new friendships and contentment in thelatter part of her life.

Having been active in many of the local groups and clubs in the Village, Colleen would now like to assist on PLVC committees. She believes her involvement will benefit from some of her life’s expertise.

Colleen’s job as Program Administrator at the University of Alaska Fairbanks at the International Arctic Research Center was funded by the Japanese Government and the National Science Foundation in the amount of $3 to $5 milllion per year with a spenddown period of 9 months, challenging all parties involved in this program. Colleen and her team worked to welcome 21 shifting international scientists and their families into the unique climate of Fairbanks, Alaska and support the scientists going to remote locations for climate study as well as conferences around the world. Colleen has owned and managed various businesses and worked in a financial institution as full charge bookkeeper for up to six clients concurrently.

Retired, Colleen finds enjoyment in her garden, reading and watching the Seahawks with dear friends. Many of you have seen her face in the various clubs and activities she has become involved in. As a side note, you might recognize Colleen from the years when the Harbormaster was a restaurant: she was the busgirl, waiter, and host who married the chef.

I have lived in the Puget Sound region since the late 1960s, raised our family in Snohomish and settled into Port Ludlow in early 2023. I received my B.S and M.S in Fisheries Biology from the University of Washington and recently retired after 39+ years of public service in Marine Science at NOAA.

My wife, Christie and I chose the village in the woods by the bay as our retirement destination due to the strong sense of community. We enjoy the walking trails, wildlife, natural beauty, the marina, group activities and the opportunities to serve our community. We are active volunteers with the Ludlow Village Players and Bay Club committees and activities. We fill our free time with home renovation projects, entertaining family and friends, cycling and walking the local trails, boating, and pickleball.

I believe the Village Council’s role in our community is vital for all of us as an organization that represents our community members. I believe that all community members have a valid perspective that deserves to be heard and considered. I look forward to hearing from our community if fortunate enough to gain your vote and be reelected to the Village Council. Thank you for your consideration.

Twenty years ago, we discovered the picturesque villages of Port Ludlow while cruising from our home in Gig Harbor to the San Juans.  With kids gone our empty Home was too large and too demanding to maintain as age slowed us down.  It was time to retire to the country!  

We have been in Teal Lake Village for three years now, my wife is serving on the PLPA board, while I served as Vice President and landscaping manager on the TLVA board where I retooled our landscape systems for enhanced performance and simultaneously reduced costs by 15%. 

Relevant Facts

2 Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Oregon State University

PG Certificate in Construction Engineering Management, University of Washington

Decade of experience working for a developer that did projects similar to Port Ludlow