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Ashley Moody, a Republican appointed to the U.S. Senate from Florida in 2025 after serving as state attorney general, is her party's nominee in the 2026 special election.
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Angie Nixon says opponent Ashley Moody should be locked up, punished in jail
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Ashley Moody Puts 'Tough on Crime' Resume Against Angie Nixon's 'Radical' Approach · The Floridian
U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL) is letting voters know she's sent criminals to jail while her socialist opponent idealizes them as part of the agenda to get rid of cops in a campaign ad released this week.
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- Born
- March 28, 1975
- Birthplace
- Plant City, Florida
- Education
- Plant City High School (1993)
University of Florida (bachelor's and master's degrees in accounting)
University of Florida School of Law (Juris Doctor)
Stetson University College of Law (Master of Laws in international law)
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Background
Ashley Brooke Moody, born on March 28, 1975, in Plant City, Florida, is the eldest of three children of Carol and Judge James S. Moody Jr. After graduating from Plant City High School in 1993, she completed bachelor's and master's degrees in accounting at the University of Florida, where she was president of Florida Blue Key, and went on to earn a Juris Doctor from the University of Florida School of Law and a Master of Laws in international law from Stetson University College of Law.
She practiced civil litigation at the law firm Holland & Knight and later worked as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Middle District of Florida. In January 1998 she changed her party registration from Democratic to Republican.
Career
Voters in Hillsborough County elected Moody to the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court in 2006, and she remained on the bench until April 2017, when she resigned to seek the office of attorney general.
In 2018 she defeated state representative Frank White in the Republican primary and Democrat Sean Shaw in the general election, 52% to 46%; she won reelection in 2022 over Democrat Aramis Ayala by 21 points.
As Florida's 38th attorney general, from 2019 to 2025, she backed lawsuits seeking to have the Affordable Care Act struck down, opposed legalizing recreational cannabis, supported Donald Trump's 2020 campaign in Florida, and joined Texas v.
Pennsylvania, the suit that sought to overturn the 2020 result.
In January 2025 Governor Ron DeSantis appointed her to fill the U.S. Senate seat Marco Rubio gave up to become secretary of state, and she took the oath of office on January 21, 2025.
2026 race
Moody is her party's choice in the special election of November 3, 2026, which will fill the remainder of the term Rubio won in 2022; the seat will next be contested for a full term in 2028. She faced little opposition for her party's nomination. Her Democratic opponent is state representative Angie Nixon, who won the Democratic primary with 56.1% of the vote over Alex Vindman, a former director of European affairs at the National Security Council.