NY Times: “Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida on Thursday named Ashley Moody, the Republican state attorney general, to replace Marco Rubio in the U.S. Senate, elevating a close ally to Mr. Rubio’s seat after he is confirmed as President-elect Donald J. Trump’s secretary of state.
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Ms. Moody, like Mr. DeSantis, was elected to statewide office in 2018 and re-elected in 2022. She had been seen as a front-runner for Mr. Rubio’s seat, appearing by Mr. DeSantis’s side at recent public events in which she and the governor endorsed the incoming Trump administration’s hard line on immigration.
Ms. Moody, 49, is a fifth-generation Floridian. Before being elected attorney general, she was a circuit court judge in Hillsborough County, home to Tampa. She had previously worked as a federal prosecutor. Ms. Moody and her husband, a law enforcement officer, have two sons.”