Jess Luce is currently the Program Manager of Dakota County's Communities for a Lifetime, aging Initiative. He currently serves on the Trellis Public Program Advisory Committee, after serving on the Trellis board from 2008 – 2016.

He is a 2009 Bush Foundation Leadership Fellow (St. Paul, MN) who attended the Maxwell School at Syracuse University where he received a master's in public administration, focusing on Gerontology and Health Services Management and Policy.