Pam Bondi

Pam Bondi
Bondi in 2025
87th United States Attorney General
Incumbent
Assumed office February 5, 2025
President	Donald Trump
Deputy	Todd Blanche
Preceded by	Merrick Garland
37th Florida Attorney General
In office January 4, 2011 – January 8, 2019
Governor	Rick Scott
Preceded by	Bill McCollum
Succeeded by	Ashley Moody
Personal details
Born	Pamela Jo Bondi (1965-11-17) November 17, 1965 (age 59) Tampa, Florida, U.S.
Political party	Republican (since 2000)
Other political affiliations	Democratic (until 2000)
Spouses	Garret Barnes ​ ​ (m. 1990; div. 1992)​ Scott Fitzgerald ​ ​ (m. 1996; div. 2002)​
Domestic partner	John Wakefield (since 2017)
Education	University of Florida (BA) Stetson University (JD)

Pamela Jo Bondi (/bɒndi/ BON-dee; born November 17, 1965) is an American attorney, lobbyist, and politician who has served as the 87th United States attorney general since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, she served as Florida attorney general from 2011 to 2019, the first woman elected to the office.

In 2020, Bondi was one of President Donald Trump's defense lawyers during his first impeachment trial. By 2024, she led the legal arm of the Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute. On November 21, 2024, then-president-elect Trump announced she would be nominated for attorney general after former representative Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration. She was confirmed in a 54–46 Senate vote on February 4, 2025, and sworn in the next day. Throughout her tenure as U.S. attorney general, Bondi has received criticism from across the political spectrum, particularly for her botched release of the Epstein files, which were widely seen as lacking transparency.^[1][2][3]