Senator George LeMieux
Board of Directors, Chairman
Practice Group(s): Business Litigation
Senator George LeMieux is a shareholder and serves as Chairman on the firm’s Board of Directors. Previously, Senator LeMieux was a shareholder with Gunster, working with the firm from 1994 through 2002 and again from 2008 until 2009, when he was appointed to serve as Florida’s 34th United States Senator. Senator LeMieux previously served as the Governor’s Chief of Staff and as Deputy Attorney General for the State of Florida.
- Practice Areas[ - ]
- Business Litigation
- Corporate and Strategic Counseling
- Education[ - ]
- Georgetown University, J.D., cum laude, 1994
- Emory University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1991
Phi Beta Kappa
Senior Class Orator
- Honors[ - ]
- National Tax Limitation Committee’s 111th Congress Tax Fighter Award, 2010
- National Federation of Independent Business’s Guardian of Small Business Award, 2010
- Citizen Against Government Waste Taxpayer Hero Award, 2010
- American Conservative Union’s Annual ACU Ratings Award, 2010
- Florida Super Lawyers, Rising Star, 2009
- AV Rated as independently determined by Martindale-Hubbell
- Florida Trend, Legal Elite, 2008
- Seminars & Presentations[ - ]
- Legislative Update: Insight into the 2009 Florida Legislative Session, May 2009
- Bar Admissions[ - ]
- The Florida Bar, 1994
- Court Admissions[ - ]
- United States Supreme Court
- United States District Court
Southern District of Florida
Middle District of Florida
Northern District of Florida - United States Court of Appeals
Eleventh and Federal Circuits
- Civic & Community Service[ - ]
- U.S. Senate Committees: Armed Services; Commerce, Science and Transportation; and Aging
- Republican Governors Association, National Finance, Co-Chair, 2008
- Prior Professional Experience[ - ]
- United States Senator, 111th Congress
- Chief of Staff, Executive Office of the Governor of Florida
- Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of Florida
- Chairman, Broward County Republican Party


