Jesse Panuccio

Jesse Panuccio

Jesse Panuccio is an American attorney based in Florida. From 2013 through 2016 he served as the executive director of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.[1][2]

Education

Panuccio received his bachelor's degree from Duke University.[3][4] He graduated from Harvard Law School magna cum laude in 2006.[2][5]

Legal career

Panuccio is a member of the Florida and District of Columbia bars.[6] After graduating law school, Panuccio served as a law clerk to Judge Michael W. McConnell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.[6]

Panuccio then practiced law with the Washington D.C.-based law firm Cooper & Kirk PLLC.

Florida government service

Panuccio joined the administration of Florida governor Rick Scott as deputy general counsel in January 2011.[2] In 2012, Governor Scott appointed Panuccio general counsel to the governor.[2] In those roles, Panuccio represented the governor and the state in several significant constitutional challenges, including challenges to drug testing of state employees and welfare recipients[7][8][2] as well as a required state-worker pension contribution.[2] He also advised the governor on judicial appointments and served as chief ethics officer for the Executive Office of the Governor.[9]

In January 2013, Scott appointed Panuccio executive director of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.[2][10] At the time, Panuccio was 32 years old[2] and was the youngest agency head in Florida government.[11] During his tenure, Panuccio wrote an op-ed in the Miami Herald about the departments efforts to combat fraud in the unemployment insurance program,[12] and an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal opposing the U.S. Department of Labor's proposed changes to its overtime rules.[13] In December 2015, Panuccio announced his resignation, effective January 8, 2016.[10]

On January 25, 2016, Governor Scott appointed Panuccio to the Florida Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission.[14]

References

  1. ↑ "Governor Rick Scott Announces New DEO Executive Director and EOG General Counsel". FLgov.com. Retrieved January 5, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Toluse Olorunnipa, Free-market conservative leads Gov. Rick Scott's jobs agency, Miami Herald (January 27, 2013).
  3. ↑ Jeff Harrington, Q&A with Jesse Panuccio, Gov. Rick Scott's point person for creating jobs, Tampa Bay Times (October 24, 2014).
  4. ↑ Margie Menzel, Five Questions for Jesse Panuccio, News Service of Florida (March 31, 2014).
  5. ↑ Aaron Deslatte, New agency chief promises more oversight of economic-development money, Orlando Sentinel (February 25, 2013).
  6. 1 2 Governor Scott Names Additional Staff in the EOG
  7. ↑ Appeals court weighs Florida welfare drug test law | TBO.com
  8. ↑ "Federal judge raises questions about Florida's random drug-testing policy". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
  9. ↑ "Gov. Rick Scott: We Appreciate Jesse Panuccio's Five Years of Service to Florida". Retrieved 2016-03-25.
  10. 1 2 Michael Auslen & Jeremy Wallace, Jesse Panuccio, Gov. Rick Scott's jobs chief, resigns as agency head, Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau (December 4, 2015).
  11. ↑ "Department of Economic Opportunity: New agency chief promises more oversight of economic-development money". Orlando Sentinel. March 25, 2016.
  12. ↑ "Fund Florida's fight against fraud". Miami Herald. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
  13. ↑ Panuccio, Jesse. "The Real Cost of Obama's Overtime Mandate". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
  14. ↑ "Governor Rick Scott Appoints Forty-Three to Judicial Nominating Commissions". Retrieved 2016-04-06.
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