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Chief Financial Officer of Florida 
Official sealIncumbent
Jeff Atwater
since January 4, 2011Term length 4 years, renewable once Inaugural holder Tom Gallagher
2003Formation 2002 Website http://www.myfloridacfo.com/ The Chief Financial Officer of Florida is a statewide constitutional officer of Florida. The office was created in 2002 following the 1998 reforms of the Florida Cabinet.
The CFO is a combination of the former offices of Comptroller and Treasurer/Insurance Commissioner/Fire Marshal. The office heads the Florida Department of Financial Services 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.
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History
Tom Gallagher was the first state CFO and a former Treasurer/Insurance Commissioner/Fire Marshal. Gallagher retired from the position in 2006 and Alex Sink (D), a Florida business executive and the wife of former Florida gubernatorial candidate Bill McBride, was elected on November 7, 2006. Alex Sink launched an unsuccessful campaign for governor in 2010, and was succeeded by Jeff Atwater.
List of Chief Financial Officers
- Tom Gallagher (R), 2003-2007
- Alex Sink (D), 2007-2011
- Jeff Atwater (R), 2011-Present
See also
- Florida
- Florida Cabinet
- Constitution of Florida
External links
Current State Treasurers of the United States AL: Young Boozer (R)
AK: Patrick Galvin (R)*
AR: Martha Shoffner (D)
AZ: Doug Ducey (R)
CA: Bill Lockyer (D)
CO: Walker Stapleton (R)
CT: Denise L. Nappier (D)
DE: Chip Flowers (D)
FL: Jeffrey Atwater (R)*
GA: Tommy Hills (R)HI: Georgina Kawamura (R)*
IA: Michael Fitzgerald (D)
ID: Ron Crane (R)
IL: Dan Rutherford (R)
IN: Richard Mourdock (R)
KS: Ron Estes (R)
KY: Todd Hollenbach (D)
LA: John Neely Kennedy (R)
MA: Steve Grossman (D)
MD: Nancy K. Kopp (D)ME: David Lemoine (D)
MI: Andy Dillon (D)
MN: Tom Hanson (R)*
MO: Clint Zweifel (D)
MS: Tate Reeves (R)
MT: Dan Bucks (D)*
NC: Janet Cowell (D)
ND: Kelly Schmidt (R)
NE: Don Stenberg (R)
NH: Catherine Provencher (D)NJ: Andrew Eristoff (R)
NM: James Lewis (D)
NV: Kate Marshall (D)
NY: Thomas DiNapoli (D)*
OH: Josh Mandel (R)
OK: Ken A. Miller (R)
OR: Ted Wheeler (D)
PA: Robert McCord (D)
RI: Gina M. Raimondo (D)
SC: Curtis M. Loftis, Jr. (R)SD: Vern Larson (R)
TN: David H. Lillard Jr. (R)
TX: Susan Combs (R)*
UT: Richard Ellis (R)
VA: Manju Ganeriwala (D)
VT: Beth Pearce (D)
WA: James L. McIntire (D)
WI: Kurt Schuller (R)
WV: John Perdue (D)
WY: Joe Meyer (R)*No treasurer in this state; closest equivalent listed Categories:- Government of Florida
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