Pamela Bondi
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| 37th Attorney General of Florida | |
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Assumed office January 4, 2011 |
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| Governor | Rick Scott |
| Preceded by | Bill McCollum |
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Pamela Jo Bondi November 17, 1965 Tampa, Florida, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Garret Barnes (1990–1992) Scott Fitzgerald (1997–2002) |
| Education |
University of Florida (BA) Stetson University (JD) |
Pamela Jo "Pam" Bondi (born November 17, 1965) is an American attorney, politician and member of the Republican Party who serves as the current Attorney General of Florida.
Bondi's hometown is Temple Terrace, Florida. Her father, Joseph Bondi, was a city councilmember and then Mayor of Temple Terrace. She is a graduate of C. Leon King High School in Tampa, Florida. Bondi graduated from the University of Florida in 1987 with a degree in Criminal Justice. She then graduated from Stetson Law School with a JD in 1990 and was admitted to the Florida Bar on June 24, 1991.
She is a former prosecutor and spokeswoman in Hillsborough County, Florida where she worked as an Assistant State Attorney. Bondi resigned this position to seek the office of Attorney General of Florida. She has made guest appearances on Scarborough Country with Joe Scarborough and various other cable news programming on MSNBC and worked for Fox News as a legal analyst.
Bondi prosecuted former Major League Baseball player Dwight Gooden in 2006 for violating the terms of his probation and for substance abuse. Bondi also prosecuted the Martin Anderson death defendants in 2007.
In 2010, Bondi defeated Democratic State Senator Dan Gelber by a 55% to 41% margin to become the Attorney General of the State of Florida.
Bondi was the lead attorney general in an unsuccessful lawsuit seeking to overturn the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in Florida et al v. United States Department of Health and Human Services. In the lawsuit the State of Florida and 26 other states argued that the individual mandate provision of the PPACA violates the United States Constitution.
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