Chase Tramont

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Chase Tramont
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Member of the FloridaHouseofRepresentatives
from the 30th district
Incumbent
Assumed office
November 8, 2022
Children4
Education Flagler College (BA)
Kennesaw State University (BA)
Occupation
  • Politician
  • educator
  • preacher

Justin Chase Tramont (born November 9, 1979) is an American politician. He is serving as a member of the Florida House of Representatives for the 30th district since November 8, 2022. He previously served as a member of the Port Orange city council from 2016 to 2022.

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Early life and education

Justin Chase Tramont was born on November 9, 1979, in Daytona Beach, Florida, to Sharon and Bruce Tramont. His father was a history teacher and his mother was an English teacher at Mainland High School. [1] [2] Tramont was raised in Daytona Beach and was a member of the First Baptist Church there. He attended Spruce Creek High School until his junior year. He then played as a point guard for the Mainland High School basketball team and led the Class 5A team to a state title in his senior year. He received two undergraduate degrees, the first in communications in 2002 from Flagler College and another in education in 2007 at Kennesaw State University. [3] [4] [5]

Career

Tramont taught history at Spruce Creek High School. [6] In 2016, Tramont was elected to the Port Orange city council. He was re-elected in 2018. After withdrawing from a Volusia County council race in 2022, Tramont resigned to run for the Florida House of Representatives. [6] [7] As of August 2022, Tramont stopped teaching and worked as a marketing manager and Baptist preacher. [8] He was elected to the Florida House in November 2022. [9] He was re-elected in 2024 wth 66% of the vote. [10]

In 2023, Tramont sponsored FL HB 391, a bill to create a registered welfare system for parents of "medically fragile children". [11] He also voted in favor of a bill to restrict the way students can use preferred pronouns in school. [12] [13] In 2024, Tramont voted for a six-week abortion ban. [14] He supported auto salesman Randy Dye, father of stock car racer Daniel Dye, for Volusia County chair in 2024. [15] Dye lost the general election to incumbent county chairman Jeff Brower despite significantly outspending Brower. [16]

Tramont briefly considered running for Congress in the 2025 Florida 6th congressional district special election, a seat outside the boundaries of his state legislative district, before President-elect Donald Trump endorsed state senator Randy Fine. [17] [18]

Political views

Tramont does not support the separation of church and state, stating: "the separation of church and state doesn't exist anywhere in our Constitution". [19] In 2022, he advocated for clean water initiatives in Florida. [8]

Tramont endorsed and supported Governor Ron DeSantis in the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries. [20] [21]

Personal life

Tramont is married to his wife Staci. They live in Port Orange, Florida and have four children. In August 2020, Tramont was hospitalized for COVID-19. [22]

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