BILL SUBLETTE is a product of Florida’s public schools.  He attended elementary, middle, and high school in Pinellas County, Florida, graduating in 1981.  He then attended the University of Florida, where he earned his Bachelors degree in 1985, and his law degree in 1988. After graduating from law school, Bill moved to Orlando, and in 1992 he won a seat in the Florida House of Representatives, where he served for eight years.  During his time in the Legislature he filled a variety of leadership positions, including stints as Chairman of the Education Appropriations Committee, Chairman of the House Public Responsibility Council, and Chairman of the Orange County Legislative Delegation.

Since leaving the Legislature, Bill has served as Chairman of the Orange County Jail Oversight Commission, and he has led, as President or Chair, a number of community organizations, including public broadcaster WMFE, the Orange County Bar Association, the local American Cancer Society unit, and the Central Florida Council of the Boy Scouts of America.  Bill has also been a tireless advocate for children’s issues.  For years he served on, and chaired, the Howard Phillips Center for Children and Families Community Advisory Board, and he currently serves as the statewide chair of the Children’s Campaign 5 Promises to Children initiative, as well as on the Governor’s Blueprint Commission for Juvenile Justice.
 
Throughout his career Bill has worked to improve the quality of our public schools.  His three children attend the Blankner School, an Orange County public school, where he has served as President of the Blankner School Foundation, and where he serves on the Blankner School Advisory Committee.  In 2003, Mayor Dyer and the City of Orlando called on him to serve as Chair of the Mayor’s Education Action Council, and in 2004 he was asked by the Orange County School Board, the City of Orlando, and Orange County Government, to Chair the Blue Ribbon Panel on Education, a group of 25 community leaders charged with studying the Orange County Public School system and making recommendations for the improvement of our public school system.

Bill is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Orlando.  He and his wife Suzie have three children: Alex (11), Aubrey (7), and Jack (6).

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