Mayor
Merle Breitenstein | mayor@cityofjoshuatx.us
My family and I moved to Joshua in 1983 to enjoy the rural atmosphere enabling our children to enjoy outside activities and to raise livestock for showing in the Joshua school programs. My grandchildren currently enjoy the country lifestyle. I retired from Motorola Inc. in 2006 as an Engineering Manager. Since then I have served as Mayor for the citizens of Joshua. I have been involved in municipal government serving as Mayor and Council Member since 1979, During these years I strived to make Joshua a better place for all ages to enjoy.
Mayor Pro Tem
Glen Walden | council2@cityofjoshuatx.us
I have lived in Joshua for eighteen years and in Johnson County for thirty-seven years. I had the pleasure of serving on the Planning & Zoning Commission before being elected to the City Council. I am presently enjoying my sixth year on the Joshua City Council and have been Mayor Pro-Tem for five of those years. I became interested in the Joshua City Government because I saw a great need for good representation of the tax paying citizens and the need for growth in our wonderful city. During these few years I have served the City of Joshua I have seen our City grow in new business, professional city staff, pride, and a great place to rear our children. I thank the citizens of Joshua for this rewarding pleasure and will continue to serve the city and its citizens.
City Council
Noelyn “Butch” Isom| council1@cityofjoshuatx.us
Born and raised in Nebraska, earned a BAE degree from Wayne State Teachers College which was followed by thirteen years as teacher/principal and farmer. I initiated a twenty-eight year career with the Nebraska Game & Parks Commission serving the last nine years as Deputy Director. With retirement in 2004 came the move to Joshua. I was appointed to the Planning & Zoning Commission in March 2007 and elected to the Joshua City Council Place #1 during the election held on May 10, 2008.
Cameron L. Smallwood | council3@cityofjoshuatx.us
I have lived in Joshua since 2004, when we moved here to enjoy more rural living closer to where I work. I have always been one to be involved when there is a true need. In 2006, I was approached by some concerned citizens about the status of the City and I decided to try to help. I have enjoyed the last several years of trying to make the Joshua community more enjoyable to live and plan to continue as long as the citizens let me. Joshua is a nice town that is well located in Johnson County and has much to offer. I am excited that over the next few years we will have much more to offer the citizens.
A. J. Mathieu| council4@cityofjoshuatx.us
I have been in the Joshua area for over 20 years and graduated from Joshua High School in 1990. I’m a self-employed I.T. consultant and have been living in the City for 10 years now where I office from home. I bring to the Council a business-minded point of view in managing our resources. I believe in fiscal responsibility both in my personal finances and that of the City with funds entrusted to the Council by the Joshua taxpayers. It’s my honor and pleasure to serve the people of Joshua on the City Council and my primary goal is to be accessible and responsive so please contact me with any concerns, praises or ideas you have for our City.
Thomas T. Tallent | council5@cityofjoshuatx.us
Serving his second term as Place 5 member of the Joshua City Council, Tom and his family are nearing their seventh year as residents of Joshua. They moved to Joshua for its friendly small town atmosphere and the excellence of the Joshua I.S.D., where his wife Brenda has taught for the past fourteen years.
During the day, Tom is a local mortgage banker, managing the mortgage services and records services departments of a full service national mortgage banking operation based in Fort Worth. He is an active member of the state, local, and national mortgage banker associations, recently having been elected as a member of the Texas MBA Board of Directors and serving as a State Committee Chair since 2006. He is a two term past president of the Fort Worth MBA.
In addition to his work within the mortgage industry, Tom is a frequent volunteer for charitable organizations such as the March of Dimes, the American Heart Association, and Habitat for Humanity. The Tallent’s have enjoyed fifteen years of marriage, particularly their three daughters, ages thirteen, nine and five.
Bob Neely | council6@cityofjoshuatx.us
Robert (Bob) Neely was born in 1939 in Fort Worth, Texas. He completed elementary and junior high at E. M. Daggett, and graduated from Paschal High School in 1957 and Arlington State College (UTA) in 1964. He completed post graduate work with a Masters of Divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1970.
Mr. Neely pastored several churches around Bowie, Vernon, San Angelo, Lubbock and Burleson. He worked several years in industry and entered into prison work in 1991 at Mineral Wells. He retired in 2009 from Sanders Estes Unit in Venus, Texas.
He is currenly a substitute teacher for the JISD Shool District and for the Education Department at Sanders Estes Unit.
Mr. Neely has been a City Council member from 1984-1988, from 1999-2003, and from 2005 to present. He has been married to Tina Ruth Neely since 1965. They have a daughter, Deborah, graduate from JISD in 1985 and a son, Ron, graduate from JISD in 1989 and currently employed by JISD. He and Tina have 5 grandchildren.
City Council meetings are held on the third Thursday of every month in the Council Chambers at City Hall located at 101 South Main. The Council work session begins at 6:30 p.m. and the regular Council meeting begins at 7:00 p.m. City Council elections are held the second Saturday of May every year in accordance with uniform election dates established by state law. The Mayor and all Council members are elected at large according to a place system. The Mayor and City Council Place 1, 3, and 5 are elected in the even numbered years. City Council Place 2, 4, and 6 are elected in the odd numbered years.
