Faculty & Staff Directory

David Jones

English Teacher

David joined the Geneva teaching staff in 2024 and teaches ninth grade English. He comes to Geneva with a wealth of experience having served for twenty-one years as an officer in the US Army and nineteen years as an environmental engineer for Orange County Government, where he served as manager of the Environmental Protection Division from 2017–2023. During the 2023–2024 school year, David served as a very busy substitute teacher, confirming his calling to teach and nurture the students at Geneva.

David earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and a master’s degree in environmental and water resources engineering from Vanderbilt University. Literature and writing have been a passion of his since high school, and in 2018, he earned a master of liberal studies from Rollins College (his thesis was entitled “Sacramental Imagery in the Fiction of James Joyce, Flannery O’Connor, and Wendell Berry”). He delights in teaching the English I curriculum, which covers Virgil’s Aeneid and several great works of medieval and Renaissance literature. David studied many of these works while at Rollins and agrees with C. S. Lewis that the only palliative to the blind spots of any age is to “keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds” by reading old books.

After David retired from the US Army in 2004, he and his wife, Lou (aka Nurse Jones), moved to Casselberry so that their daughters (Kara ’08 and Mollie ’11) could attend The Geneva School. They love being a part of this wonderful community of faith and learning.

David has served as a deacon at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church for many years, and he enjoys reading, traveling, exercising (especially yoga), and attending plays and musicals.

Lou Jones

School Nurse
321-422-0222

Lou Jones is a registered nurse and has been a school nurse at The Geneva School since 2005. In 2019, she moved to the new upper school campus to focus her care on our 7th–12th grade students, then in 2023 moved to part-time work, managing medical records and working as needed in both the upper and lower school clinics. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a BSN in 1983. Married to a now-retired army officer, her family moved around the world with the military for twenty-one years. For fourteen of those years, she worked as a nurse in various hospital settings, including general surgical post-op care, two burn units, surgical intensive care, and cardiovascular intensive care.

Besides caring for the injuries and illness that happen during the school day at Geneva, Lou has a passion for promoting wellness for life. She enjoys helping our school community understand the connection between wholesome eating and regular exercise with a healthy mind and body. In order to promote health both for today and into the future, Lou has initiated and coordinated several programs at TGS—Fresh Ideas, Tasty Fridays, Fresh Finals, F3 summer camp, and employee wellness challenges. She received the TGS Bravo Award in 2012 in honor of her work to build a culture of wellness in our school community. She completed a health coaching certification in 2019.

Lou is married to David, an environmental engineer, and current 9th grade English teacher at Geneva. They have two daughters, Kara and Mollie, who graduated from The Geneva School in 2008 and 2011. She loves to exercise, garden, paddleboard, travel, and read.