Joe Brown Former Secretary of the Florida Senate Joe Brown died April 16th in Tallahassee. In 1974, Brown became the 40th Secretary of the Florida Senate. He served for 22 years, retiring in 1996. Brown was 88. Michael Collins Astronaut Michael Collins died of cancer at the age of 90 on April 28th. Collins Read more about In Memoriam[…]
Audubon Florida Board of Directors Named chair of the Audubon Florida Board of Directors was Heidi McCree, Tampa, an attorney. Lauren Book The Florida Senate Democrats have chosen Senator Lauren Book (D-Plantation) as their Democratic Leader, succeeding Senator Gary Farmer (D-Fort Lauderdale). Just days before this year’s legislative session concluded, Senator Farmer resigned his seat Read more about Movers and Shakers[…]
Commission on Election Integrity The Commission on Election Integrity of the Republican State Leadership Committee named three to the Commission. Appointed were: Laurel Lee, Florida Secretary of State; Senator Kathleen Passidomo, Republican from Naples and chair of the Senate Rules Committee; and Representative Paul Renner, Republican from Palm Coast and chair of the House Rules Read more about Movers and Shakers[…]
Appointments by Governor DeSantis: Florida Board of Dentistry Appointed were Bradley Cherry, Ponte Vedra Beach, an oral and maxillofacial surgeon in St. Augustine; Thomas McCawley, Fort Lauderdale, president of McCawley Periodontics P.A. who previously served in the U.S. Army Dental Corps; Christine Bojaxhi, Neptune Beach, a dentist at the Mayo Clinic of Florida and Comfortable Read more about Movers and Shakers[…]
Appointments by Governor DeSantis: Florida Women’s Hall of Fame Inducted into the Florida Women’s Hall of Fame were: Alice Scott Abbott, formerly of Bunnell, she was born in Illinois in 1856. Abbott delivered the “first lecture on Votes for Women” at an 1893 convention held in St. Augustine. She was a “delegate-at-large”, at the Women’s Read more about Movers and Shakers[…]