James Hamilton Percival, II

Chief of Staff, Office of the Attorney General of Florida

James Percival currently serves as Chief of Staff for Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody. He previously served as Deputy Attorney General of Legal Policy and Chief Deputy Solicitor General.

Prior to joining the Attorney General’s Office, Mr. Percival worked at the U.S. Department of Justice as Counsel to Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand and Senior Counsel to Acting Associate Attorney General Jesse Panuccio. Before that, he was an attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and clerked for the Honorable Emmett Ripley Cox of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

In addition to his role in the Attorney General’s Office, Mr. Percival currently serves on the Judicial Nominating Commission for Florida’s First District Court of Appeal. He also teaches a class at Florida State University College of Law on emergency litigation.

Mr. Percival holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was Notes Editor for the Virginia Law Review.

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