Current office and professional background
James Uthmeier is Florida’s attorney general. He assumed the office in February 2025 following service as Governor Ron DeSantis’s chief of staff and, before that, general counsel. The current state leadership directories and the attorney general’s official biography identify him as the incumbent on October 28, 2026. His route to the position was an appointment, not an election to the attorney general’s office before he took office. That distinction belongs in a government directory even when an appointed official later seeks election. S1S2
The attorney general’s position is a statewide constitutional office and a seat in Florida’s Cabinet. Uthmeier’s preceding job in the governor’s office was different: a chief of staff works within the governor’s administration, whereas the attorney general leads a separately constituted office. His career therefore includes both service as a senior executive aide and service as the state’s chief legal officer. S2S3
Early life and education
Uthmeier’s official biography identifies Destin as the community where he grew up. His Florida connection also includes the University of Florida, where he studied and competed in varsity cross-country and track. He later attended Georgetown University Law Center. The official biography supports those educational affiliations without requiring assumptions about unlisted graduation dates, degree concentrations or private family circumstances. S1
The distinction between university attendance and a specific credential matters in a detailed biography. This account does not add degrees beyond those supported by the reviewed sources or present an athletic affiliation as a public-service credential. It describes the education and activities the office has publicly documented, then follows his subsequent professional roles chronologically. S1
Legal work before state leadership
Before joining Florida’s executive administration, Uthmeier practiced at Jones Day in Washington, D.C. His official biography describes work as a litigator. He also served as senior adviser and counsel to U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. These roles placed him in private legal practice and federal executive-branch work before his more prominent Florida appointments. S1
The Commerce Department role was an advisory and legal position, not an elected office or a seat in Congress. Similarly, employment at a law firm does not establish authorship of every matter handled by the firm. Those boundaries are useful when reading abbreviated biographies that compress several different legal jobs into a single description of government experience.
Uthmeier subsequently served as general counsel to Governor DeSantis and then as the governor’s chief of staff. The general-counsel position involved legal work for the executive office; the chief-of-staff position placed him in a broader administrative role. His appointment as attorney general in 2025 followed these positions. The office’s biography supplies the sequence, while the appointment record establishes the change in public office. S1S4
Becoming attorney general
Uthmeier was sworn in on February 17, 2025. The Florida Bar’s contemporaneous news digest reports the inauguration and identifies the preceding vacancy after Ashley Moody moved to the U.S. Senate. The current attorney general’s official biography independently confirms the February 2025 appointment. Moody’s subsequent Senate service and Uthmeier’s attorney general service must remain separate entries rather than both being treated as current holders of the same state office. S1S4
The constitutional role includes the state’s chief legal-officer responsibilities and participation in the Cabinet. The office’s consumer-protection work is also a practical point of contact for residents who believe a business practice may violate state law. A public complaint, however, is not itself a finding that a business broke the law, and the attorney general’s office is not a substitute for a resident’s personal attorney in every private dispute. S3S5
A documented consumer-privacy action
A specific example of Uthmeier’s public record is the June 2026 resolution of a digital-privacy enforcement action involving Roku. The attorney general’s office and Roku announced an agreement under which the company would make changes connected with Florida’s Digital Bill of Rights. The announcement described an estimated $25 million in company engineering work. It did not describe that figure as a $25 million payment to Florida consumers or a civil penalty. S6
The release also stated that the agreement did not include a finding of wrongdoing. That qualification is material: an enforcement action, a negotiated settlement and a judicial finding are different events. The estimated investment and prospective implementation period should likewise not be rewritten as proof that all promised technical work was already finished on the announcement date. The agreement is included here as a documented action by the office, not as an independent assessment of the company’s services. S6
Teaching and the study of executive power
A University of Florida College of Law syllabus lists Uthmeier as the professor for an Executive Power course in fall 2025. The syllabus identifies him as Florida attorney general and describes a course addressing federal and state executive authority, separation of powers, emergency powers, prosecutorial discretion, appointments and oversight. It is direct institutional evidence of that particular teaching assignment. It does not establish every later semester’s teaching schedule. S7
The course subject overlaps with institutions in which he has worked, but teaching is separate from exercising governmental authority. A classroom syllabus explains a course’s scope; it should not be used as evidence of a legal ruling or endorsement by the university of an official’s policies. For this biography, its value is narrower and concrete: it documents another public professional role and its academic subject matter. S7
Contacting the office
Residents should use the attorney general’s official website for current complaint forms, consumer information and contact channels. Use an office contact rather than a personal address reproduced from an unrelated academic or historical document. Provide relevant facts and documents through the official process, and avoid assuming that sending a complaint creates an attorney-client relationship or guarantees a particular enforcement result. S5
This page records Uthmeier’s current office as checked on October 28, 2026. It does not predict an election outcome. Any later transition should update the seat’s current-holder link when the official change occurs, while preserving the dated biography as a record of his service.