{"id":279464,"date":"2026-05-21T13:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/279464\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:24:08","slug":"gov-desantis-appoints-fort-myers-attorney-as-lee-county-elections-chief-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/279464\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. DeSantis appoints Fort Myers attorney as Lee County elections chief | Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WINK)\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/search\/?f=html&amp;t=article%2Ccollection%2Cvideo%2Cyoutube&amp;s=start_time&amp;sd=desc&amp;l=25&amp;nsa=eedition&amp;q=Ron+DeSantis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a> announced the appointment of Jenna Persons-Mulicka as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lee County Supervisor of Elections<\/a> on May 20.<\/p>\n<p>Persons-Mulicka is a founding partner and attorney at Strayhorn &amp; Persons-Mulicka. She currently serves in the Florida House of Representatives, representing District 78.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her service in the Florida House, Persons-Mulicka serves on the Florida Commission on the Status of Women and co-chairs the Lee County Bar Association&#8217;s History Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Persons-Mulicka earned her bachelor&#8217;s degrees in journalism and government from Evangel University and her juris doctor from The George Washington University.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to <a href=\"http:\/\/WINKNews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WINKNews.com<\/a>, WINK News App, streaming, and on-air for any new developments on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WINK)\u2014 Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the appointment of Jenna Persons-Mulicka as Lee County Supervisor of Elections&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28,119239,56427,356,412],"class_list":["post-279464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-florida","tag-fort-myers-housing-authority-community-impact-award","tag-jenna-persons-mulicka","tag-lee-county","tag-ron-desantis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279464","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=279464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}