Elizabeth Castor is an American educator and former politician. Castor was elected to the Florida Senate and as Florida Education Commissioner,and she subsequently served as the President of the University of South Florida,and President of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
The 107th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government,composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington,D.C.,from January 3,2001,to January 3,2003,during the final weeks of the Clinton presidency and the first two years of the George W. Bush presidency. The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the 1990 United States census.
The Florida House of Representatives is the lower house of the Florida Legislature,the state legislature of the U.S. state of Florida,the Florida Senate being the upper house. Article III,Section 1 of the Constitution of Florida,adopted in 1968,defines the role of the Legislature and how it is to be constituted. The House is composed of 120 members,each elected from a single-member district with a population of approximately 180,000 residents. Legislative districts are drawn on the basis of population figures,provided by the federal decennial census. Representatives' terms begin immediately upon their election.
Anitere Flores is a Republican politician from Miami,Florida. She served three terms in the Florida House of Representatives from 2004 to 2010. Subsequently,she served in the Florida Senate from 2010 to 2020. In the 2016–18 legislative session,Flores served as president pro tempore of the Senate.
RenéGarcía is a Republican politician from Florida. He has served on the Miami-Dade County Commission since 2020,representing the Hialeah area. He previously served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and in the Florida Senate from 2010 to 2018.
Carlos Antonio Giménez is a Cuban-born American politician and retired firefighter serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 28th congressional district. He was redistricted from Florida's 26th congressional district. A Republican,he served as mayor of Miami-Dade County from 2011 to 2020. He served as a Miami-Dade County Commissioner from 2003 to 2011,and was the fire chief of the City of Miami Fire Department.
Annette Joanne Taddeo-Goldstein is a Colombian-American politician and businesswoman who served as a member of the Florida Senate from the 40th district from 2017 to 2022. She was an unsuccessful candidate for several elections starting in 2008 and was Charlie Crist's running mate in the 2014 Florida gubernatorial election. She was formerly a Democratic candidate in the 2022 Florida gubernatorial election,but withdrew to run for Congress in Florida's 27th congressional district to unsuccessfully challenge incumbent María Elvira Salazar. She is currently running for Miami-Dade County Clerk and Comptroller.
Kathleen Mary Williams is United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. She previously served as the Federal Public Defender for the Southern District of Florida.
JoséFélix Díaz is a Republican politician from Florida. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2010 to 2017,representing parts of Miami-Dade County. He resigned from the House in 2017 to run for a special election to the Florida Senate,but was not elected.
William L. Thomas is a circuit judge for Florida's Eleventh Judicial Circuit and former nominee for United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Kionne L. McGhee is an American Democratic politician from Florida who has served as a member of the Miami-Dade County Commission since 2020. Previously,he served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2012 to 2020,representing south-central Miami-Dade County stretching from Richmond Heights to Florida City. He was the House Minority Leader for the 2018–20 legislature.
Barbara Watson is a Democratic politician from Florida. She served in the Florida House of Representatives,representing parts of North Miami to Miami Gardens in northern Miami-Dade County,from 2011 to 2020.
Mary Barzee Flores is a Florida attorney in private practice and a former Democratic candidate for Florida's 25th congressional district in the 2018 election. From 2003 to 2011,she served as a judge on Florida's Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court. President Barack Obama nominated her to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in 2015,but her nomination expired without being voted on by the United States Senate.
Martin Zilber is an American retired judge based in Miami-Dade County,Florida. He was elected to the court in 2014 for a term beginning on January 6,2015,and departed the bench in May 2021. After years of community service he is now a candidate for the city of Miami city commission.
The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida were held on Tuesday,November 6,2018,to elect the 27 U.S. representatives from the state of Florida,one from each of the state's 27 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other offices,including a gubernatorial election,other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate,and various state and local elections. The party primaries were held on August 28,2018.
Bruno Arthur Barreiro is a Republican politician from Florida. He served on the Miami-Dade County Commission from 1998 to 2018,representing part of Miami Beach and the Miami neighborhoods of Brickell,Little Havana,Coral Way,and West Flagler. He resigned on March 31,2018,to run unsuccessfully in the Republican primary for Florida's 27th congressional district in the 2018 election.
Roy Kalman Altman is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Dotie Joseph is a Democratic member of the Florida Legislature representing the State's 108th House district.
The 2020 Miami-Dade County mayoral election was held on November 3,2020,to determine the mayor of Miami-Dade County,Florida. County Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava defeated fellow commissioner Esteban Bovo. Incumbent Mayor Carlos A. Giménez,first elected in 2011,was term-limited;instead running for the U.S. House of Representatives to represent Florida's 26th congressional district.
Robin Bartleman is an American legislator and educator serving as a member of the Florida House of Representatives from the 103rd district. She assumed office on November 3,2020. She is a Democrat,supporting affordable housing,resolving the state's property insurance crisis,dealing with flooding and increasing healthcare affordability.
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