“I want somebody that’s going to work with President Trump to deliver on the mandate he earned from the American people,” DeSantis said about his choice of Moody.

The 49-year-old has served as Florida’s attorney general since 2019. A Trump loyalist, Moody joined other state attorneys general in signaling their support for a lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton requesting that the Supreme Court void the 2020 presidential election results in the swing states of Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.

In 2009, Moody and her family accused Trump in a federal lawsuit of fraud stemming from a real estate deal. She said in 2017 that her involvement in the case had no bearing on her support for Trump.

“This matter had absolutely no bearing on my family’s support of our President during the election, and I continue to support him and his agenda in Washington,” Moody said in a statement to Politico at the time.

Moody endorsed DeSantis for president in 2023 and joined him on the campaign trail.

“Over the last five years, I’ve worked hand-in-hand and witnessed personally DeSantis’s extraordinary leadership, his integrity and his commitment to not only the state of Florida but our nation,” Moody said at the time of her endorsement.

However, once the governor dropped out of the presidential race, she, like many DeSantis backers, voiced her support for Trump.

In late 2023, Moody petitioned the state Supreme Court to disqualify a 2024 state ballot measure to expand abortion access, claiming that the ballot language could mislead voters. The measure ended up staying on the ballot, but it failed to garner the 60% voter support needed to amend the state constitution.

Moody is a fifth-generation Floridian from Plant City, according to her attorney general biography.

In 2006, at age 31, she became the youngest judge in Florida when she was elected circuit court judge of the 13th Judicial Circuit in Hillsborough County.

She attended the University of Florida, where she earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and later attended Stetson University, where she earned a master’s degree in international law.

She is married to Justin Duralia, the deputy chief of the Plant City Police Department, and they have two sons together.