Jimmy Patronis

Current office and a Northwest Florida career

Jimmy Patronis represents Florida’s 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. A Republican, he entered Congress following the April 1, 2025 special election and took the oath on April 2. The House’s current directory identifies him as the district’s officeholder on October 28, 2026. Before Congress, he served as Florida’s chief financial officer, a member of the Florida Public Service Commission and a state representative. His biography therefore connects a Northwest Florida business background with legislative and executive service at two levels of government. S1 S2 S3

Patronis was born in Panama City on April 13, 1972, and attended Bay High School. Panama City and Bay County are central to his upbringing, but they should not be used as a substitute for checking the boundaries of his present congressional district. A person’s hometown, former legislative district and current federal constituency can be different. The House’s official district tools identify whether a particular address is represented by his office. S1 S3

Education and business background

The House historian records an associate degree from Gulf Coast Community College in 1994 and a bachelor’s degree from Florida State University in 1996. The former institution is now Gulf Coast State College. A historical Florida House profile also records restaurant-management study. Because the state and congressional biographies use different abbreviations for the bachelor’s credential, this account does not force a B.A. or B.S. label where the records are inconsistent. The institutions and completion years are clear. S1 S4

His early professional record identifies him as a business owner. The restaurant-management background is useful context for his later work involving businesses, insurance and consumer matters. It is not, however, evidence that a congressional office can provide individualized business, legal or insurance advice. Those are separate professional and governmental functions. A detailed biography can explain the connection without turning prior business experience into a claim of universal expertise. S1 S4

State legislative and regulatory service

Patronis served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2006 to 2014. His subsequent service on the Florida Public Service Commission ran from 2015 to 2017. The commission role was a regulatory appointment rather than a legislative seat. That sequence places him in state lawmaking first and utility regulation afterward, before he moved into the chief financial officer’s office. S1

The historical state House page preserves the earlier district-era record, including education and professional affiliations. Such a page should be read as an archive, not a current contact directory. Phone numbers, committee assignments and district boundaries attached to a past legislative term do not automatically remain accurate after an official changes offices. S4

The congressional historical record dates his tenure as Florida chief financial officer from 2017 to 2025. That statewide executive position differs from his current House membership. A state CFO administers the relevant Florida department and participates in Cabinet work; a U.S. representative votes on federal legislation and performs congressional oversight. Patronis’s former office should therefore remain in his biography as a prior role, not appear as an additional current seat. S1

The 2025 special election

Patronis was elected to fill the vacancy left by Matthew Gaetz. The House’s vacancies-and-successors record distinguishes the April 1 special election from his execution of the oath on April 2, 2025. The historian’s concise biography uses the special-election date in its service entry; the roster accompanying this profile uses the oath date for assumption of the seat and preserves the distinction in its notes. S1 S2

This was entry into an already running Congress, not the beginning of a new two-year Congress for every representative. His seat belongs to the same 119th Congress as the other Florida House seats. The next regular election and the opening of the following Congress are separate milestones; no future winner is assigned to the seat in this current-officeholder profile.

Committees and legislative interests

The current House directory lists Patronis on Transportation and Infrastructure and Small Business. These assignments connect his federal work with transportation systems and issues affecting business formation, finance and operations. Committee membership is an institutional assignment, not authority to approve an individual constituent’s loan or direct a federal agency to grant a particular application. S3

A concrete public-service example is his May 2026 announcement of a veterans’ telephone town hall. The office described a forum for veterans, service members and military families to ask questions. It also identified his introduction of the Veteran and Spouse Licensing Flexibility Act and cosponsorship of the Major Richard Star Act. Those are legislative positions and proposals; the announcement alone does not establish enactment or a new entitlement for an individual veteran. S5

In October 2026, the office announced a House companion proposal concerning oil drilling and the Eglin Gulf Test and Training Range. The stated focus linked a regional military-testing area with federal offshore policy. The proposal should be described as filed legislation, not as proof that a new restriction had already taken effect. Its progress requires the underlying congressional bill record. S6

How residents can use the office

The House directory lists Patronis’s Washington office at 2021 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515, and telephone 202-225-4136. His official website is the appropriate source for current district offices, federal-agency assistance and public correspondence. Former CFO or state House contact details should not be substituted. S3