Ashley Moody is a Republican U.S. senator from Florida. Born in Plant City, Florida, in 1975, she came from a family with long ties to the city; her mother was a lawyer and her father was a judge. Moody has been a lawyer in private practice, a federal prosecutor, a judge in Hillsborough county, and Florida’s attorney general. Appointed to the U.S. Senate in 2025 by Gov. Ron DeSantis, she won a 2026 special election and will serve out the remainder of former senator Marco Rubio’s seat. She will next face election in 2028.
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