List of Florida Blue Key members
Florida Blue Key is a student leadership honor society at the University of Florida .[ 1] [ 2] It was the founding chapter of the national Blue Key Honor Society in 1923, but later withdrew and operates as a local organization.[ 2] Florida Blue Key members include many politicians, judges, and university presidents.[ 3] [ 4] [ 5] Its members live across the United States.[ 3]
Academia
Business
Law
Name
Notability
Reference
Martha Barnett
Attorney, second female president of the American Bar Association
[ 4]
Beth Bloom
federal judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
[ 15]
Sandy D'Alemberte
President of the American Bar Association , president of Florida State University , and Florida House of Representatives
[ 6]
Dexter Douglass
Lawyer for Al Gore in the Florida recount case and general counsel to Florida Governor Lawton Chiles
[ 6] [ 16]
Raymond Ehrlich
Former justice to the Florida Supreme Court
[ 17]
Jose Alejandro Gonzalez Jr.
Senior judge of the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida
[ 6]
Stephen H. Grimes
Chief justice to the Florida Supreme Court
[ 6] [ 18]
James Lawrence King
Senior judge of the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida
[ 6]
Mark W. Klingensmith
chief judge of the Florida 4th District Court of Appeal
[ 19] [ 20]
James W. Kynes
Florida Attorney General and professional football player
[ 21]
Bill McCollum
Florida Attorney General and U.S. Representative
[ 22]
Chad Mizelle
acting general counsel of the US Department of Homeland Security
[ 23]
Kathryn Kimball Mizelle
District judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida
[ 24]
James S. Moody Jr.
Senior judge of the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida
[ 25]
John Morgan
Attorney, head of the country's largest personal injury law firm
[ 6]
Stephen C. O'Connell
Chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court
and president of the University of Florida
[ 7] [ 5] [ 6]
Peggy Quince
justice of the Florida Supreme Court
[ 26]
Harold Sebring
Member of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials tribunal, chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court , and head coach of Florida Gators football
[ 27]
Robert L. Shevin
Florida Attorney General , judge, Florida Senate , and Florida House of Representatives
[ 28]
Chesterfield Smith
Holland & Knight founder and president of the American Bar Association
[ 5] [ 6]
W. Reece Smith Jr.
President of the International Bar Association
and president of the American Bar Association
[ 29]
William Glenn Terrell
Florida Supreme Court justice, Florida House of Representatives , and Florida Senate
[ 6]
B. Campbell Thornal
Former justice to the Florida Supreme Court
[ 2]
Charles T. Wells
Florida Supreme Court justice
[ 6] [ 30]
Stephen N. Zack
President of the American Bar Association , attorney in Bush v. Gore
[ 31]
Politics
Lawton Chiles
Bob Graham
Nikki Fried
Laurel Lee
Bill Nelson
Marco Rubio
Name
Notability
Reference
Reubin Askew
Governor of Florida and United States Trade Representative
[ 6]
Bill Birchfield
Florida House of Representatives
[ 32]
Jason Brodeur
Florida House of Representatives
[ 33]
Frank Brogan
15th Lt. Governor of Florida, chancellor of the State University System of Florida , and president of Florida Atlantic University
[ 6]
J. Hyatt Brown
Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives
[ 6]
Julie Imanuel Brown
Chairman and commissioner of the Florida Public Service Commission
[ 4]
Lawton Chiles
41st Florida Governor and former U.S. Senator
[ 3] [ 5] [ 34] [ 6]
Chuck Clemons
Florida House of Representatives
[ 35]
Sandy D'Alemberte
Florida House of Representatives , president of Florida State University ,
and president of the American Bar Association
[ 6]
Rick Dantzler
Florida executive director of the Farm Service Agency ,
Florida Senate , and Florida House of Representatives
[ 36]
Ben Diamond
Florida House of Representatives
[ 37]
Chris Dorworth
Florida House of Representatives
[ 38]
Dan Eagle
Florida Secretary of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity
and Florida House of Representatives
[ 39]
Nikki Fried
Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Florida Democratic Party chair
[ 4] [ 5]
Bob Graham
38th Governor of Florida , U.S. Senator , and
founder of the Bob Graham Center for Public Service
[ 40] [ 34] [ 6]
Ben Hill Griffin
Citrus magnate and state legislator
[ 5]
William Hamilton
Democratic political consultant and pollster
[ 6] [ 41] [ 42] [ 43]
Spessard Holland
28th Governor of Florida
[ 34]
Ed Jennings
Florida House of Representatives
[ 6]
Toni Jennings
16th Lieutenant governor of Florida , Florida House of Representatives , and Florida Senate
[ 6]
Dave Kerner
executive director of Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles , Florida House of Representatives and mayor of Palm Beach County
[ 44] [ 45]
Jeff Kottkamp
lieutenant governor of Florida and Florida House of Representatives
[ 46]
Laurel Lee
Secretary of State of Florida and U.S. Congressman
[ 4]
Connie Mack III
U.S. Senator and U.S. Congressman
[ 47] [ 6]
Buddy MacKay
42nd governor of Florida , lieutenant governor, and U.S. Congressman
[ 34] [ 6]
Bill McBride
Candidate for governor of Florida against Jeb Bush
[ 6]
Bill McCollum
U.S. Representative and Florida Attorney General
[ 22]
Perry McGriff
Florida House of Representatives and mayor of Gainesville
[ 6]
John Mica
U.S. House of Representatives
[ 6]
Jeff Miller
U.S. House of Representatives
[ 6]
Katie Miller
White House communications director
[ 5]
Ashley Moody
U.S. Senator from Florida
[ 48]
Bill Nelson
U.S. Senator , U.S. Representative , and NASA astronaut
[ 6]
Richard A. Pettigrew
Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives
[ 6]
Adam Putnam
Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and U.S. Congressman
[ 5] [ 34] [ 6]
Marco Rubio
U.S. Secretary of State , U.S. Senator and speaker of the Florida House of Representatives
[ 5]
Ron Saunders
Florida House of Representatives
[ 49]
T. Terrell Sessums
Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives
[ 6]
Robert L. Shevin
Florida Attorney General , judge, Florida Senate , and Florida House of Representatives
[ 28]
George Smathers
United States Senate and United States House of Representatives
[ 50] [ 51]
Greg Steube
Florida House of Representatives
[ 52] [ 53]
William Glenn Terrell
Florida House of Representatives , Florida Senate , and Florida Supreme Court justice
[ 6]
Pat Thomas
Florida Senate
[ 54]
Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch
politician and author
[ 5]
Fuller Warren
30th governor of Florida
[ 34]
Steve Spurrier
Sports
Tim Tebow
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