Jim joined the council in 2009 and elected as Chairman in May 2018 until handing the baton on in September 2020.

Jim is a member of the following:

• Planning Committee
• Asset Management Committee
• Queen's Platinum Jubilee (Temporary) Committee
• Heritage Signs Working Group
• Coxley Village Hall Representative
• PACT
• Jim is also a Trustee of the Coxley Community Land Trust.

Cllr Reeves's Register of Interests

About Jim:

After graduating from Sheffield University, I was commissioned into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME). I served 5 years in the Regular Army in BAOR, Colchester and Berlin; and another 30 years in the Territorial and Reserve Army including an operational tour to Iraq in 2006.

In civilian life I joined Thorn EMI as an ROV pilot and team leader working for 5 years at the British Underwater Test and Evaluation Centre in the West Highlands before moving south to become first a sonar analyst and later an engineering project manager.

I moved to a job with Thorn Transit Systems International in Wells in '97 as a bid and project manager in mass transit fare collection systems.

In '99 I joined the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, later QinetiQ, working in Farnborough, Bristol and Boscombe Down in the management of various maritime and airborne Test and Evaluation projects retiring in 2010.

I joined St Cuthbert Out Parish Council in 2009 and served as Chair of the council from 2018 to 2020.

I am married with two children and two grandchildren, have been a SCUBA diver, on and off, for 45 years and ride a 40 year old motorcycle.