The Chief Financial Officer of Florida is a statewide constitutional officer of Florida

Florida

Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

. The office was created in 2002 following the 1998 reforms of the Florida Cabinet

Florida Cabinet

The Florida Cabinet is a body of the government of Florida that engages in the collective governance of the state.Created following Reconstruction, when there had been a widespread distrust of the governors appointed by the federal government, the cabinet was designed to decentralize authority from...

.

The CFO is a combination of the former offices of Comptroller

Florida Comptroller

The Florida Comptroller was the state comptroller of Florida from 1845 to 2003...

 and Treasurer/Insurance Commissioner/Fire Marshal

Treasurer/Insurance Commissioner/Fire Marshal

The Treasurer/Insurance Commissioner/Fire Marshal is a former statewide constitutional officer of Florida...

. The office heads the Florida Department of Financial Services

Florida Department of Financial Services

Florida Department of Financial Services is a state agency of Florida. Its headquarters are in Tallahassee. In 2002 the Florida Legislature merged the Department of Insurance, Treasury and State Fire Marshal and the Department of Banking and Finance into one department, the Florida Department of...

 and is responsible for overseeing the state's finances, collecting revenue, paying state bills, auditing state agencies, regulating cemeteries and funerals, and handling fires and arsons. In addition, the CFO has administrative oversight over the offices which handles banking and insurance regulation. The CFO is a member of the Cabinet.

History

Tom Gallagher

Tom Gallagher

Tom Gallagher is an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida and a member of the Republican Party. Gallagher, a three-time candidate for Governor of Florida, holds the distinction of having served more years as an elected state official than any other individual in Florida history.-Early...

 was the first state CFO and a former Treasurer/Insurance Commissioner/Fire Marshal. Gallagher retired from the position in 2006 and Alex Sink

Alex Sink

Adelaide "Alex" Sink is an American politician of the Democratic Party. Sink was the Chief Financial Officer for the state of Florida and treasurer on the board of trustees of the Florida State Board of Administration...

 (D), a Florida business executive and the wife of former Florida gubernatorial candidate Bill McBride

Bill McBride (candidate)

Bill McBride is an American lawyer and politician.A Democrat, he challenged Jeb Bush for Florida governor in the 2002 gubernatorial election. Bush won 56-43 percent, making him the first Republican governor of Florida to serve two terms...

, was elected on November 7, 2006. Alex Sink launched an unsuccessful campaign for governor

Florida gubernatorial election, 2010

The 2010 Florida gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 2010. Incumbent Governor Charlie Crist chose not to run for a second term and instead ran for the Senate seat vacated by Mel Martinez. This resulted in an open race for Governor of Florida...

 in 2010, and was succeeded by Jeff Atwater.

List of Chief Financial Officers

1. Tom Gallagher
   Tom Gallagher
   Tom Gallagher is an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida and a member of the Republican Party. Gallagher, a three-time candidate for Governor of Florida, holds the distinction of having served more years as an elected state official than any other individual in Florida history.-Early...
   
    (R
   Republican Party (United States)
   The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
   
   ), 2003-2007
2. Alex Sink
   Alex Sink
   Adelaide "Alex" Sink is an American politician of the Democratic Party. Sink was the Chief Financial Officer for the state of Florida and treasurer on the board of trustees of the Florida State Board of Administration...
   
    (D
   Democratic Party (United States)
   The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
   
   ), 2007-2011
3. Jeff Atwater (R
   Republican Party (United States)
   The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
   
   ), 2011-Present

External links

• Florida Department of Financial Services