Key moments from Pam Bondi’s career as US Attorney General

Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Feb. 11, 2026, in Washington, DC.

A photo of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor is displayed as Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Feb. 11, 2026 in Washington, DC.

Victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein react as Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before a House Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, DC, on Feb. 11, 2026.

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speak with each other before the start of the White House turkey pardon ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on Nov. 25, 2025.

Attorney General Pam Bondi, accompanied by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche (L) and FBI Director Kash Patel (R), speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department on Nov. 19, 2025 in Washington, DC.

President Donald Trump speaks with Attorney General Pam Bondi as he delivers an announcement on his Homeland Security Task Force in the State Dinning Room of the White House on Oct. 23, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on Oct. 7, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Attorney General Pam Bondi (L), along with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, participates in a press conference near Camp 57 at Angola Prison, the Louisiana State Penitentiary and America's largest maximum-security prison farm, to announce the opening of a new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility that will house immigrants convicted of crimes in West Feliciana Parish, La., near the town of St. Francisville on Sept. 3, 2025.

US Attorney General Pam Bondi (R) speaks during a news conference with President Donald Trump in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on June 27, 2025, in Washington, D.C. President Trump claimed a "GIANT WIN" Friday as the US Supreme Court curbed the power of lone federal judges to block executive actions. "GIANT WIN in the United States Supreme Court! Even the Birthright Citizenship Hoax has been, indirectly, hit hard," Trump said on Truth Social.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on June 25, 2025, in Washington, D.C. The committee met to hear testimony to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2026 for the Department of Justice.

Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during the first hearing of U.S. President Donald Trump's Religious Liberty Commission on "the importance of faith to American success" at the Museum of the Bible on June 16, 2025 in Washington, D.C. The Religious Liberty Commission was established on May 1, 2025 following an executive order signed by Trump during the National Day of Prayer event at the White House.

Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks alongside President Donald Trump at a roundtable in the State Dining Room at the White House on June 5, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Trump held the roundtable for members of the Fraternal Order of Police.

US Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a press conference at the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C., on May 6, 2025. Bondi announced the outcome of a weeklong, multi-agency enforcement operation targeting one of the largest drug trafficking organizations responsible for trafficking fentanyl and other illicit narcotics.

Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General, and Kash Patel, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, greet people after holding a press conference at Port Everglades on April 9, 2025 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The press conference followed an off-loading of over 48,400 pounds of illicit narcotics worth more than $509 million from U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James at Port Everglades. Bondi said, "that the capture of the drugs along with suspected drug runners is a blow to the drug organization's financial operations and their efforts to distribute drugs around the United States."

US Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a press conference about MS-13 gang activity at the Broward County Sheriff's Office Research, Development and Training Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on April 4, 2025.

President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi arrive to speak at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., on March 14, 2025.

(L-R) U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent listen as U.S. President Donald Trump address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Vice President JD Vance and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) applaud behind him. President Trump was expected to address Congress on his early achievements of his presidency and his upcoming legislative agenda.

President Donald Trump watches as U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas swears in Pam Bondi as U.S. Attorney General alongside her partner John Wakefield (3rd-R) and her mother Patsy Bondi (2nd-R) in the Oval Office at the White House on Feb. 5, 2025 in Washington, D.C. The Senate confirmed Bondi as Attorney General with a 54-46 vote on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi poses on the day of her swearing in ceremony, at the White House in Washington on Feb. 5, 2025.

Florida's former Attorney General, Pam Bondi, introduced Lara Trump at a Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. rally for President Donald Trump on Nov. 2, 2020.

Former campaign adviser of President Trump Corey Lewandowski, right, and former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi speak to the media about a court order giving President Trump's campaign access to observe vote counting operations on Nov. 5, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pa.

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, Pam Bondi, Blair Brandt, and Lara Trump pose with Bart, a racing greyhound saved from being euthanized after he broke his leg. The reception was a fundraiser to support the Humane Society's efforts to find homes for greyhounds at home in Palm Beach Friday, Feb. 8, 2019.

Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi addresses a crowd at the opening of the new Trump Force 47 office in Casa Grande, Ariz., on July 2, 2024.

Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is greeted by Senator Rick Scott, R-Fla. (L), and Senate Judiciary committee chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, before the start of a hearing on her nomination to be Attorney General of the United States on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Pam Bondi recognizes family and friends in attendance as she delivers opening remarks during a Senate Judiciary committee hearing on her nomination to be Attorney General of the United States on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi arrives for a service at St. John's Church on Inauguration Day of Donald Trump's second presidential term in Washington on January 20, 2025.

Pam Bondi Florida Attorney General speaks to the media about a multi-Agency force that arrested 20 of 26 people Thursday morning in a county wide drug raid License to Ill, at a Thursday afternoon at a press conference held at the Titusville, Fla. Police Department on April 21, 2011.

Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing to be the next U.S. attorney general in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on January 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. Bondi, who was nominated by President-elect Donald Trump, defended him during his first impeachment trial in 2020 and publicly supported false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Attorney General Pam Bondi meets with incoming Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) in his office at the Hart Senate Office Building on December 02, 2024 in Washington, DC. Trump replaced his original nominee, former Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) after Gaetz withdrew his nomination following a House ethics investigation into sexual misconduct.

Former Florida Attorney General, Pam Bondi, speaks during the Republican National Convention at the Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 25, 2020

Florida attorney general Pam Bondi speaks during the 2016 Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland on July 20, 2016.

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi waving to Florida delegates while rehearsing from the stage before the start of the 2016 Republican National Convention on Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at Quicken Loans Arena.

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens speak during the third day of the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum on August 29, 2012 in Tampa, Fla.

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Gov. Rick Scott chat during a Cabinet meeting at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla.on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018.

Pam Bondi, Lara Trump and Katrina Pierson take photos with a crowd estimated at 400 during a Women for Trump bus tour stop in Port Orange, Fla. on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020.