Jane Gaab Scott, wife of former BJ regional issues reporter and deputy Business editor Dave Scott who left in the 2014 BJ buyouts exodus, is making her first run for elective office. She’s a candidate for Copley Township trustee.

There are five running for the two seats. The others are Copley trustees president Scott David Dressler, trustees vice president Dale Panovich, Naureen Dar and Bruce Koellner.

Jane is no novice to township doings, however. She has been on the Copley Zoning Board for 11 years.

She’s been around politics before, too. Jane’s father, Robert Gaab, was a councilman in Independence during the 1960s.

Summit County's general election is November 7.

Jane is manager of the Fairlawn-Bath Library, part of the Akron-Summit County Public Library system. She has a master's in Library Science from Kent State. She has been president of the Copley-Fairlawn Kiwanis and the Copley Historical Society.

Jane and Dave have been married 38 years and have three sons, including Franklin who, with the help of wife Natasha Kunin Scott, made Jane and Scott grandparents. Their granddaughter was born in Oakland, California.

Jane’s sister, Katie Gaab-Shaw, is married to another former Ol’ Blue Walls inhabitant, Webb Shaw. Webb retired in 2014 as Vice President of Editorial Resources at J. J. Keller & Associates in Neenah, Wisconsin. The Shaws live in Fremont, Wisconsin.

It was Katie and Webb, along with another former BJ staffer, Rick Reiff, and his wife Diane, who set up the blind date that led to Jane and Dave becoming wife and husband.