Ms Bondi’s rise has brought her far from Temple Terrace, the city where she grew up on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Her father, a teacher, was the mayor. While an undergraduate at the University of Florida she considered becoming a paediatrician. But she went to law school, and an internship at the state prosecutor’s office in Tampa sealed the deal.

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Stetson University College of Law, 1988-1990, J.D. received 1990 St. Edmund Hall College, the University of Oxford, summer 1989 (no degree conferred) University of Florida, 1986-1987, B.A. received 1987 University of South Florida, 1983-1986

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