GOVERNOR APPOINTMENTS

Incoming Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has appointed new secretaries of state agencies. DeSantis named Mark Inch, a retired U.S. Army major general who also worked as director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, to serve as secretary of the Department of Corrections and Chad Poppell to head the Department of Children and Families.  He also appointed Visit Florida chief Ken Lawson to serve as executive director of the Department of Economic Opportunity, Barbara Palmer as the Director of the Agency for Persons with Disabilities, Jim Poppell as Florida Lottery Secretary, and Cynthia Kelly as Budget Director.