Pam Bondi

Pam Bondi
Pam Bondi
	Bondi in 2025
87th United States Attorney General
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; February 5, 2025
President	Donald Trump
Deputy	Emil Bove (acting); 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; 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 (2017–⁠present)
Education	University of Florida (BA); Stetson University (JD);
	Bondi's voice Duration: 1 minute and 23 seconds.1:23 Bondi on the files related to the death of Jeffrey Epstein; Recorded July 8, 2025

Pamela Jo Bondi (/ˈbɒndi/ BON-dee; born November 17, 1965)^[2] 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 the 37th Florida attorney general from 2011 to 2019, the first woman to hold the office.

Born and raised in the Tampa Bay area, Bondi graduated from the University of Floridaand Stetson Law School. She served as an assistant state attorney in Hillsborough County, Florida from 1994 to 2009. In 2010, Bondi was elected Attorney General of Florida, becoming the first woman to serve in the position. She was re-elected in 2014, becoming the first two term Republican attorney general in Florida history. She was term-limited in 2018, and was succeeded by fellow Republican Ashley Moody.

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, President-elect Trump announced his intention to nominate Bondi for attorney general after former congressman Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in a 54–46 vote on February 4, 2025, and sworn in the next day.

Early life and education

Pamela Jo Bondi^[3] was born on November 17, 1965. Her hometown is Temple Terrace, Florida. Her father, Joseph Bondi, was a city council member and then mayor of Temple Terrace. She is a graduate of C. Leon King High School in Tampa.^[4] Her younger brother, Bradley Bondi, is a lawyer.^[5]

Bondi received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in criminal justice from the University of Florida in 1987 and a Juris Doctor from the Stetson University College of Law in 1990.^[6]^[7]^[8] She was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority as an undergraduate student.^[6] Bondi was admitted to the Florida Bar on June 24, 1991.^[8]

Early career

Bondi was a prosecutor and spokeswoman in Hillsborough County, Florida, where she was an assistant state attorney.^[9] Bondi prosecuted former Major League Baseballplayer Dwight Gooden in 2006 for violating the terms of his probation and for substance abuse.^[10]^[11] In 2007, Bondi also prosecuted the defendants in Martin Anderson's death.^[12]

Florida attorney general (2011–2019)

Return to private life

Lobbying work

In 2019, after her final term as Florida attorney general, Bondi was hired by Ballard Partners and she began working as a registered foreign agent and lobbyist for Qatar. Her work with Qatar was related to anti-human-trafficking efforts in advance of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.^[44]^[45] She left the Qatari project in 2019 to work in a temporary position for the White House Counsel for President Trump's first impeachment proceedings.^[44]

As a partner at Ballard Partners, she also became a lobbyist for KGL KSCC, a company incorporated in Kuwait.^[46] Bondi was lobbying for the Kuwaiti company to help with a case of claimed extortion.^[47]During her time at Ballard Partners, Bondi lobbied for GEO Group, Amazon, Uber, General Motors, the Florida Sheriffs Association and others.^[48]

Trump's first impeachment proceedings

In November 2019, she was hired by the first Trump administration to help the White House during Trump's first impeachment proceedings.^[49]^[50] Her position was described the following month as being to "attack the process" of the impeachment inquiry.^[51] On January 17, 2020, Bondi was named as part of Trump's defense team for the Senate impeachment trial.^[52]

During the course of the impeachment trial, Bondi made allegations that former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter were involved in corruption in Ukraine, stemming from the younger Biden's position on board of Burisma Holdings.^[53] It was also revealed that Lev Parnas, a businessman with close ties to Rudy Giuliani and Ukraine, had several meetings with Bondi in 2018 while she was the Florida attorney general, and after she left office in 2019.^[54]^[55]

2020 presidential election

Bondi spoke in support of Trump at the 2020 Republican National Convention.^[56] Bondi became a vocal supporter of Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 defeat.^[57] While ballots were being counted in the 2020 United States presidential election, Bondi supported Trump's claims that there was large-scale voter fraud in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.^[58]^[59]

In an appearance on Fox News on November 5, 2020, host Steve Doocy challenged Bondi to provide evidence for her claims of fraud. She said "We know that ballots have been dumped."^[60]Bondi later claimed that Trump had won Pennsylvania, despite votes there still being counted, with his opponent Joe Biden ultimately winning the state.^[59]

Board of trustees and advocacy work

During the following lame-duck session, Trump appointed Bondi to the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.^[61] The Palm Beach Post described the appointment as a reward for her loyalty to Trump.^[62]

By 2024, Bondi led the legal arm of the Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute, a nonprofit that planned policies for a potential second Trump presidency. She worked to file voting lawsuits in battleground states relating to the 2024 presidential election.^[63]

U.S. attorney general (2025–present)

Nomination and confirmation

On November 21, 2024, president-elect Trump announced she would be nominated for United States attorney general, after the withdrawal of Matt Gaetz for that position.^[64]^[65]^[66]

There were two hearings at the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, one on January 15, 2025, and the second one on January 16. Bondi was questioned by Democratic Senators over her past work as a lobbyist, the 2020 presidential election results, her relationship with Trump, and her thoughts about TikTok.^[67]^[68]^[69]

On January 29, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved her nomination in a party-line 12–10 vote.^[70] She was confirmed in a 54–46 Senate vote on February 4.^[71] The only Democratic Senator who voted "aye" was Senator John Fetterman.^[72]^[73]^[74]

Bondi disclosed to the Senate Judiciary committee and the designated ethics official at the U.S. Department of Justice the compensation for her consulting services to Renatus Advisors LLC of Puerto Rico in shares and stock warrants for the merger of Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC) and Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT), which were in turn converted to shares and warrants of DJT on the day of the merger. The compensation for the consulting services totaled $2,969,563.^[75]

Tenure

On February 5, 2025, Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas swore Bondi into office as the 87th attorney general.^[76]^[77] On Bondi's first day in office, she shut down the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force,^[78] shut down the DOJ's Task Force KleptoCapture,^[79] and cut back enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.^[78] Bondi has largely taken an implementation role as attorney general, with key decisions being made by Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and other White House officials.^[80]

In late February 2025, a number of files related to Jeffrey Epstein were released, heavily redacted and offering little new information. Bondi was criticized for her handling of the release, with commentators on the right and left labeling the move a political stunt rather than a genuine effort at transparency.^[81]^[82] Arwa Mahdawi, writing for The Guardian, derided the release as "a lot of redacted nothing".^[83]

In March 2025, Chief Judge James Boasberg of the federal district court in D.C. issued an order to temporarily block the Trump administration from using the Alien Enemies Act deporting alleged members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, and also verbally ordered for the deportation flights "to be returned to the United States", to be "complied with immediately"; however the Trump administration completed the deportations anyway, with Bondi and other Justice Department officials later arguing in a March 17 legal filing that "an oral directive is not enforceable as an injunction".^[84]^[85] Bondi and other Justice Department officials then submitted a March 18 legal filing stating that regarding certain details about the deportation flights requested by Judge Boasberg, "there is no justification to order the provision of additional information, and that doing so would be inappropriate".^[86] During a media interview on March 19, Bondi said regarding Boasberg: "this judge has no right to ask those questions" regarding details about the deportation flights, and has "no power" to order the Trump administration to stop the deportation flights, as Bondi declared that judges are "meddling in our government".^[87]

Following the United States government group chat leak in March 2025, Bondi indicated that the leak would not be investigated, saying that the information shared was not classified.^[88]

In March 2025, Bondi announced the establishment of the Joint Task Force October 7 (JTF 10-7) to seek justice for victims of the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel by Hamas, which killed approximately 1,200 people, including 47 U.S. citizens, and saw about 250 others abducted, including eight Americans. The task force focuses on prosecuting the direct perpetrators of the attack, pursuing charges against Hamas leadership, and targeting individuals and entities providing support or financing to Hamas, related Iranian proxies, and affiliates. It also addresses acts of antisemitism linked to these groups. JTF 10-7 is led by senior officials from the Justice Department's National Security Division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with personnel drawn from multiple DOJ divisions, the FBI, and international partners, including Israel's National Bureau of Counter Terror Finance.^[89]^[90]^[91]

Bondi directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in the Luigi Mangione case.^[92]

In April 2025, Bondi said that fentanyl seizures in the first 100 days of Trump's second term as president had saved 21 million lives. Two days later, she increased this estimate to 119 million. Later that week during a cabinet meeting where she praised Trump and said that his first 100 days "far exceeded that of any other presidency in this country", she said that during the same period, DOJ agencies had seized "3,400 kilos of fentanyl...which saved—are you ready for this, media?—258 million lives". These statistics were met with skepticism given that only around 70,000 fentanyl deaths occur in the U.S. each year and the claim of lives saved represents 75% of the US population.^[93]^[94]

In April 2025, Bondi held a task force meeting on anti-Christian bias.^[95]

In May, it was reported that Bondi sold at least $1 million worth of shares in Trump Media on Liberation Day.^[96]

In July 2025, the Department of Justice and the FBI wrote a memo saying there was no evidence that a supposed list of Epstein's clients existed.^[97] Previously in February 2025, Fox News journalist John Roberts had asked Bondi if the Justice Department would be publishing "the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients", to which Bondi responded: "It's sitting on my desk right now to review. That's been a directive by President Trump. I'm reviewing that."^[98]^[99] Bondi also previously claimed there were "tens of thousands of videos" showing Epstein "with children or child porn," a claim later walked back by FBI Director Kash Patel.^[98] The contradictions drew criticism from some figures in the MAGA movement.^[100]^[101] Following the controversy, deputy director of the FBI Dan Bonginoconsidered resigning from his position due to his disagreement with Bondi over how the Justice Department handled the announcement of its decision not to release further records related to Epstein.^[102]^[103] President Trump defended Bondi, posting on Truth Social that she was doing "a FANTASTIC JOB" in her role. According to CNN, "Privately, Trump has also doubled down on his support for Bondi."^[104] The Wall Street Journal later reported that, during a briefing on the Justice Department's review of the files in May, Bondi informed Trump that his name was included among the documents.^[105]^[106]

In August 2025, Bondi announced on Twitter that the Department of Justice and the State Department were increasing the reward to $50 million for Nicolás Maduro, accusing the Venezuelan president of collaborating with foreign terrorist organizations, such as Tren de Aragua, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the Cartel of the Suns, to bring deadly violence to the United States.^[107] Maduro was previously indicted by the first Trump administration in 2020, along with other Venezuelan officials and former Colombian FARC members, for what it described as "narco-terrorism": the trafficking of cocaine to the United States to wage a health war on its citizens.^[108]^[109]^[110]The reward was originally set at $15 million in March 2020 before being raised to $25 million by the Biden administration in January 2025.^[111]^[112] In a Fox News interview, Bondi stated that the DOJ had seized approximately $700 million in assets linked to Maduro. The assets allegedly included multiple luxury homes in Florida, a mansion in the Dominican Republic, private jets, vehicles, a horse farm, jewelry, and large sums of cash.^[113] Bondi described Maduro’s government as an "organized crime operation" that continued to function despite the seizures.^[114]

Personal life

Bondi is of southern Italian descent, with roots in Campania.^[4] She married Garret Barnes in 1990; the couple divorced after 22 months of marriage. In 1996, Bondi married Scott Fitzgerald; they divorced in 2002.^[115] She was engaged to Greg Henderson in 2012.^[116] Since 2017, she has been in a relationship with John Wakefield.^[117]

Electoral history

2010 Florida Attorney General election, Republican primary^[118]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Pam Bondi	459,022	37.89%	N/A
	Republican	Jeff Kottkamp	397,781	32.84%	N/A
	Republican	Holly Benson	354,573	29.27%	N/A
Majority			61,241	5.05%	N/A
Turnout			1,211,376

2010 Florida Attorney General election, General election^[119]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Pam Bondi	2,882,868	54.77%	+2.08%
	Democratic	Dan Gelber	2,181,377	41.44%	−5.87%
	Independent	Jim Lewis	199,147	3.78%	N/A
Majority			701,491	13.33%	+7.95%
Turnout			5,263,392

2014 Florida Attorney General election, General election^[120]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Pam Bondi	3,222,524	55.09%	+0.32%
	Democratic	George Sheldon	2,457,357	42.01%	+0.57%
	Libertarian	Bill Wohlsifer	169,394	2.90%	N/A
Majority			765,207	13.08%	−0.25%
Turnout			5,849,235

References

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