Toni Jennings

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Toni Jennings

16th Lieutenant Governor of Florida
In office March 3, 2003 – January 2, 2007
Governor	Jeb Bush
Preceded by	Frank Brogan
Succeeded by	Jeff Kottkamp
Personal details
Born	(1949-05-17) May 17, 1949 Orlando, Florida
Political party	Republican
Profession	Teacher and CEO

Antoinette "Toni" Jennings (born May 17, 1949) was the 16th Lieutenant Governor of Florida. She was nominated to the office by Governor Jeb Bush in February 2003 to replace Frank Brogan, who resigned to become president of Florida Atlantic University. She was sworn in on March 3,^[1] 2003, becoming the first woman to hold the office. She declined to run for governor in 2006 even though she was reputed to be Bush's preferred choice as his successor.

After the 2006 elections, Jennings was replaced as Lieutenant Governor by Jeff Kottkamp on January 2, 2007.

Jennings previously served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1976–1980, and in the Florida Senate from 1980-2000. In 1994, when Orange County Chairman Linda Chapin announced she was not seeking re-election, she failed to convince Jennings to return to Orlando and campaign for the office herself. Instead, she remained in Tallahassee to be elected by her Senate peers to be President of the Florida Senate—the only person to have held the powerful office for two terms, from 1996-2000. In 2000, legislative term limits came into effect, having been instituted by a constitutional referendum taken several years earlier. Jennings was thereafter prohibited from seeking reelection.

Before entering public service, Jennings was an elementary school teacher. During and after her tenure in the legislature, she also ran the family construction business. She is a graduate of Wesleyan College.

As lieutenant governor she worked on legislative relations for Bush, on education policy, hurricane prepardness, disaster relief and issues related to the space coast in Florida.

Jennings endorsed former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in the 2008 presidential primary election.

References

↑ Jordon Kalilich (2008-08-06). "Frank Brogan and Toni Jennings". The World of Stuff. Retrieved 2008-08-06.

External links

Biography at the Florida Women's Hall of Fame

Political offices
Preceded by William D. Gorman	Member of the Florida Senate from the 15th district 1980–1992	Succeeded by Patsy Ann Kurth
Preceded by William G. Bankhead	Member of the Florida Senate from the 9th district 1992–2000	Succeeded by D. Lee Constantine
Preceded by Frank Brogan	Lieutenant Governor of Florida 2003-2007	Succeeded by Jeff Kottkamp

v t e Lieutenant Governors of Florida

Kelly Gleason Weeks Day Stearns Hull Bethel Mabry Osborne Adams Williams Mixson Brantley MacKay Brogan Jennings Kottkamp Carroll

Florida Women's Hall of Fame
Administrative agency: Florida Commission on the Status of Women

1980–1989

1982	Mary McLeod Bethune Helene S. Coleman Elaine Gordon Wilhelmina Celeste Goehring Harvey Paula Mae Milton Barbara Jo Palmer

1984	Roxcy O’Neal Bolton Barbara Landstreet Frye Lena B. Smithers Hughes Zora Neale Hurston Sybil Collins Mobley Helen Muir Gladys Pumariega Soler Julia DeForest Sturtevant Tuttle

1986	Annie Ackerman Rosemary Barkett Gwendolyn Sawyer Cherry Dorothy Dodd Marjory Stoneman Douglas Elsie Jones Hare Elizabeth McCullough Johnson Frances Bartlett Kinne Arva Moore Parks McCabe Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Florence Barbara Seibert Marilyn K. Smith Eartha M. M. White

1990–1999

1992	Jacqueline Cochran Carrie P. Meek Ruth Bryan Owen

1993	Betty Skelton Frankman Erde Paulina Pedroso Janet Reno

1994	Nikki Beare Betty Mae Jumper Gladys Nichols Milton

1995	Evelyn Stocking Crosslin JoAnn Hardin Morgan Sarah Brooks Pryor

1996	Marjorie Harris Carr Betty Castor Ivy Julia Cromartie Stranahan

1997	Alicia Baro Carita Doggett Corse M. Athalie Range

1998	Helen Gordon Davis Mattie Belle Davis Christine Fulwylie-Bankston

1999	Althea Gibson Sister Jeanne O’Laughlin Dessie Smith Prescott

2000–2009

2000	Chris Evert Paula Fickes Hawkins Marianne Mathewson-Chapman

2001	Jessie Ball duPont Lenore Carrero Nesbitt Lynda Keever

2002	Victoria Joyce Ely Toni Jennings Frances Langford Stuart

2003	Sarah Ann Blocker Gloria Estefan Mary R. Grizzle

2004/2005	Shirley D. Coletti Judith Kersey Marion Hammer

2005/2006	Caridad Asensio Tillie Kidd Fowler Lucy W. Morgan

2006/2007	Maryly VanLeer Peck Peggy A. Quince

2007/2008	Barbara J. Pariente Pallavi Patel Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

2008/2009	Louise H. Cortelis Gwen Margolis Betty Schlesinger Sembler

2009/2010	Eugenie Clark Claudine Dianne Ryce Dara Grace Torres

2010–2019

2010/2011	Mary Brennan Karl Anna I. Rodriguez

2011/2012	Ruth H. Alexander Elizabeth "Budd" Bell Vicki Bryant Burke

2012/2013	Clara C. Frye Aleene Pridgen Kidd MacKenzie Lillie Pierce Voss

Persondata
Name	Jennings, Toni
Alternative names
Short description	American politician
Date of birth	May 17, 1949
Place of birth	Orlando, Florida
Date of death
Place of death

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