Ashley Moody

Ashley Brooke Moody (born March 28, 1975) is an American politician and attorney serving since 2025 as the junior United States senator from Florida. A member of the Republican Party, she served from 2019 to 2025 as the 38th attorney general of Florida. Born in Plant City, Florida, Moody is an alumna of the University of Florida and Stetson University. She worked in civil litigation and then as an assistant U.S. attorney at the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Middle District of Florida until she was elected as a circuit court judge in Hillsborough County in 2006. She remained in that role until 2017, when she resigned to run for Florida attorney general. As Florida attorney general, Moody supported lawsuits to invalidate the Affordable Care Act and opposed the legalization of recreational cannabis. She supported President Donald Trump in Florida during the 2020 presidential election, and joined the lawsuit Texas v. Pennsylvania, which sought to overturn the results of the election. In January 2025, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Moody to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the resignation of Marco Rubio, who became United States secretary of state in the Trump administration. Moody is the Republican nominee in the 2026 United States Senate special election in Florida.