Jesse Panuccio

Jesse Panuccio is an American attorney based in Florida. From 2013 through 2016 he served as the executive director of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.

Panuccio received his bachelor's degree from Duke University. He graduated from Harvard Law School magna cum laude in 2006.

Panuccio is a member of the Florida and District of Columbia bars. After graduating law school, Panuccio served as a law clerk to Judge Michael W. McConnell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Panuccio then practiced law with the Washington D.C.-based law firm Cooper & Kirk PLLC.

Panuccio joined the administration of Florida governor Rick Scott as deputy general counsel in January 2011. In 2012, Governor Scott appointed Panuccio general counsel to the governor. In those roles, Panuccio represented the governor and the state in several significant constitutional challenges, including challenges to drug testing of state employees and welfare recipients as well as a required state-worker pension contribution. He also advised the governor on judicial appointments and served as chief ethics officer for the Executive Office of the Governor.

In January 2013, Scott appointed Panuccio executive director of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity. At the time, Panuccio was 32 years old and was the youngest agency head in Florida government. During his tenure, Panuccio wrote an op-ed in the Miami Herald about the departments efforts to combat fraud in the unemployment insurance program, and an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal opposing the U.S. Department of Labor's proposed changes to its overtime rules. In December 2015, Panuccio announced his resignation, effective January 8, 2016.

On January 25, 2016, Governor Scott appointed Panuccio to the Florida Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission.

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