Governor DeSantis rolls out a series of new appointments

Governor of Florida ended the week with 18 appointments to three state panels.

The Ron DeSantis selections include a trio that will go to the Tallahassee State College District Board of Trusteesa quartet for the Graduate Medical Education Commissionand 11 choices for the Florida Faith Community Advisory Council.

Monesia BrownNorth Highland’s vice president of government relations and a former member of the state Board of Education, is new to the board of trustees.

“Active in her community, she serves on the Board of Directors of the Jacksonville Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Boys Town North Florida, Leadership Florida and the Big Bend Minority Chamber of Commerce. Brown earned her bachelor’s degree in English from Illinois State University and her juris doctor from the University of Wisconsin,” the governor’s office said in the announcement.

She joins repeated appointments Jonathan Kilpatrick from Trulight and Frank “Monte” Stevens of the Southern Group in that panel.

Meanwhile, all candidates for the Graduate Medical Education Committee are new: Wayne ChutkanDr. Chris Ghaemmaghami, Matthew Loveand Dr. Michelle Mendez.

Chutkan is Senior Vice President of Finance at Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Dr. Ghaemmaghami is Executive Vice President, Chief Physician Executive and Chief Clinical Officer of Jackson Health System. He also serves as Chief Medical Officer of Miami-Dade County and a volunteer professor of public health sciences at the University of Miami.

Love is the president and CEO of Nicklaus Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Mendez has her own practice and is also an assistant professor at the University of North Florida and the nurse practitioner program at Jacksonville University.

The choices for the Faith-Based and Community Based Advisory Council consist of a mix of old and new.

New on the board: Kevin Baird, Tess Dewhirst, Joseph Breit, Robert Pacienza, Marilyn Rivera, Megan RoosAnd Michael Watkins.

They represent a diversity of experiences. Dewhirst is a homeschool parent educator, while Rose is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

James “Scott” George, Jerry Haag, Calvin MartinAnd Pam Olsen were all reappointed.

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