Benson served in the Crist Administration as Secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration. In that role, Benson worked to significantly reduce Medicaid fraud, to reduce the costs of health insurance and prescription drugs for Floridians, and to hold health care providers accountable. In addition, she worked to streamline the regulatory process and reduce where appropriate the regulatory burden for providers and consumers.
Prior to her appointment as Secretary of the Agency, Secretary Benson served as Secretary of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation where she and her team worked to improve customer service and to reduce the regulatory burden placed on Florida's businesses and professionals. The Department is responsible for licensing over 1 million Floridians.
Sec. Benson served the people of Pensacola and Gulf Breeze for six years as their representative in the Florida House. During her tenure in the House, Sec. Benson earned a reputation for successfully tackling tough issues. As Chair of the Select Committee on Article V, she led the successful reorganization of the state court system. As Chair of the Committee on State Administration, she updated the state's procurement code. In addition, as Chair of the Health and Families Council she addressed the tough health care access issues that touch the lives of all Floridians.
Sec. Benson is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Florida College of Law. She practiced municipal bond law with Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C. from 1996 to her appointment as Secretary of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation in 2007.
Benson has served on the Florida Council of 100, the Council on Efficient Government and the Board of Directors of the Florida Healthy Kids Corporation. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science and the Board of Directors of the Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce.
Campaign News
Benson Joins Race for Attorney General
October 30th, 2009
Former Pensacola lawmaker Holly Benson announced her candidacy for Florida Attorney General on Thursday on the steps of the old Escambia County Courthouse.
“At a time when government needs to be at its most effective and responsible, people are deeply troubled that government is even more out of touch, more out of control and is expanding … "
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