Current office and professional background
Laurel Lee represents Florida’s 15th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. A Republican, she began federal legislative service on January 3, 2023. Before Congress, she was Florida’s secretary of state and a circuit judge in Hillsborough County. Her career also includes private legal practice, a federal judicial clerkship and work as a federal prosecutor. The current House directory lists committee assignments on House Administration, Energy and Commerce, and Judiciary. S1S2
Lee was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 26, 1974. Her higher education and much of her legal and governmental career are connected with Florida. The public sources support that outline without requiring an invented childhood narrative or private family history. Her current office is a federal legislative seat, not the state executive or judicial position she previously held. S1
University and legal education
Lee earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida and a law degree from the same institution in 1999. The House historian supplies the law-school completion year but does not give an undergraduate completion year in its concise entry, so that field is not guessed here. S1
Her legal career included a clerkship for U.S. District Judge James S. Moody Jr., private practice and service as an assistant federal prosecutor in the Middle District of Florida. These jobs represent different parts of the legal system: assisting a judge, representing clients and prosecuting federal cases. They should not be treated as interchangeable appointments or as proof of a particular outcome in an unnamed case. S1
Circuit court service
Lee served as a Hillsborough County circuit judge from 2013 to 2019. The judicial period preceded her secretary-of-state appointment. A judicial biography ordinarily concerns the courts and cases within its jurisdiction; after leaving the bench, a former judge does not retain authority to decide new cases through a congressional office. S1
The transition is a distinctive feature of her career. Her public record spans the judicial branch, state executive administration and the federal legislative branch. A reader can understand that range without treating all three roles as current or assuming that experience in one branch eliminates the limits that apply in another.
Florida secretary of state
Lee served as Florida secretary of state from January 2019 to May 2022. Her congressional biography records those dates, and the governor’s 2019 announcement of confirmed agency heads identifies her in that position. This was an appointed state executive role, separate from the statewide elected Cabinet offices. S3S4
A specific action from that period was the governor’s direction to evaluate cybersecurity in Florida election systems. The official 2019 announcement identified Lee’s department and cooperation with county supervisors of elections. It documents an administrative initiative and the institutions involved, rather than proving that every subsequent election-security concern was resolved. S5
The governor’s office also announced Florida’s participation in the Electronic Registration Information Center during her tenure. That is a dated historical action. It should not be republished as proof of the state’s current membership status without a separate current check. S6
Entry into Congress and current responsibilities
Lee entered the House in the 118th Congress and continued into the 119th. The House historian also records her appointment as one of the House managers in the 2024 impeachment proceedings involving Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. That identifies a procedural role assigned by the House; it is not itself a finding of liability or a statement of the Senate’s disposition. S1
Her current assignments are House Administration, Energy and Commerce, and Judiciary. Those committees place elections and House operations, commerce and technology, and legal-policy subjects within her federal work. The current directory, rather than an older first-term committee list, governs the roster here. S2
Congressional oversight and lawmaking differ from administering elections as secretary of state. Residents with voter-registration questions should use the responsible election office; they should not assume Lee’s current congressional office still administers Florida’s statewide election system.
A documented technology proposal
On July 23, 2026, Lee’s office announced the bipartisan Stealth Bot Prohibition Act. The proposal concerns automated web crawlers that conceal their identity and the transparency standards that would apply when they access websites. The Government Publishing Office preserves H.R. 9915 in its introduced form. S7S8
The distinction between introduction and enactment matters to website operators. This biography does not tell a business that every proposed crawler requirement is already law, nor does it treat a bill announcement as a technical standard that a developer must immediately install. The cited records document Lee’s role in introducing the proposal and describe the subject of the legislation. S7S8
That example connects her current committee portfolio with technology policy. It is one selected action rather than a comprehensive review of her votes or an endorsement of the proposal’s design. Readers can follow the primary record for subsequent amendments and congressional actions.
Public contact
The House directory lists Lee’s Washington office at 2464 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515, and telephone 202-225-5626. Her official congressional website provides district contact and constituent-service routes. Former court or secretary-of-state contact details should remain historical rather than being reused for current correspondence. S2S3
This profile records the officeholder checked on October 28, 2026. It separates public career facts from campaign advocacy and does not predict the next election. If she later leaves the seat, the seat page should identify the new holder when that person actually assumes office while Lee’s person page preserves the dated account of her service.