Jim Glover moved to Kansas City in 1973 after graduating from Westminster College with a bachelor's degree in urban and regional development.  He worked as an urban economist for the Mid-American Regional Council in 1974 where his main task was helping to develop a metropolitan transportation system and worked as an environmental affairs assistant in the Department of Transportation in Washington D.C. in 1975.  He graduated with a law degree from the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law in 1977.  Jim began his legal career as an assistant county prosecutor and has been in private practice since 1978.  Jim has been with the firm Cooling & Herbers since 2003. 

Jim moved to the Hyde Park neighborhood in 1973 and served as neighborhood association president for two years.  While active in his neighborhood, Jim organized a Midtown Task Force that successfully fought street prostitution along Troost and Main.

He was appointed by Governor Kit Bond to the Missouri Housing Development Commission in 1982 and served until 1987.  His accomplishments there included convincing the commission to allocate single-family loan funds specifically for the urban core and to base loan fund allocations on population so Kansas City would receive proportionately as much as St. Louis.

He was first elected City Councilman, 2nd District at large, 1991; re-elected, 1995.

He was then elected City Councilman, 4th District at large, 2003.