{"id":278986,"date":"2026-05-21T02:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278986\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T02:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:36:09","slug":"desantis-appoints-jenna-persons-mulicka-as-lee-county-supervisor-of-elections-wgcu-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278986\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis appoints Jenna Persons-Mulicka as Lee County Supervisor of Elections | WGCU News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jenna Persons-Mulicka has been appointed as Lee County Supervisor of Elections by Governor Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n

Persons-Mulicka is a founding partner and attorney at Strayhorn & Persons-Mulicka and currently a member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing District 78. <\/p>\n

In addition to her Florida House position, Persons-Mulicka also serves on the Florida Commission on the Status of Women and Co-Chairs the Lee County Bar Association\u2019s History Committee. <\/p>\n

Persons-Mulicka earned her bachelor\u2019s degrees in journalism and government from Evangel University and her juris doctor from The George Washington University.<\/p>\n

The position opened with the early retirement in January of former supervisor Tommy Doyle. Chief Deputy Bernie Feliciano served as acting supervisor of elections until the appointment was made.<\/p>\n

Doyle served as supervisor for nine years. <\/p>\n

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Shortly after the announcement of Persons-Mulika’s appointment, Susan Frantz officially transferred her candidacy for the Florida House of Representatives District 78 to the 2026 election cycle. She is founder and CEO of Frantz Marketing Solutions, a Fort Myers-based marketing and public relations firm.<\/p>\n

WGCU is your trusted source for news and information in Southwest Florida. We are a nonprofit public service, and your support is more critical than ever. Keep public media strong and\u00a0donate\u00a0<\/a>now. Thank you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jenna Persons-Mulicka has been appointed as Lee County Supervisor of Elections by Governor Ron DeSantis. Persons-Mulicka is a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-278986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}