The state attorney for Hillsborough County, Andrew Warren, was suspended on July 4, 2022, over his refusal to enforce the abortion ban.

In the wake of the Roe vs Wade reversal, Warren pledged not to enforce a number of state laws including a 15-week abortion ban and prohibitions on sex changes for minors.

He was suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis, who said that Warren had put himself “above the law” by promising not to enforce laws limiting abortion or the ability of children to seek certain gender dysphoria treatments.

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Warren was born in Gainesville in 1977. He has two older brothers and a younger sister. His father moved from Boston in the 1970s to teach at the University of Florida.

He studied at Gainesville’s East Side High School, where he played baseball and soccer. He won a scholarship to Brandeis University outside Boston, where he studied political science and economics. He spent his junior year abroad at the London School of Economics.

“If he wasn’t the smartest guy in the room, then he was one of the smartest,” said Jonathan Heafitz, a Brandeis alum who’s a Washington lobbyist. “He always had read the book before class and had thought of all the questions and was grilling the professor.”

Later, Warren went to Columbia Law School in New York City.

The Democrat came to the limelight on election night 2016, when he unseated Mark Ober, the Republican incumbent, in the race for Hillsborough County prosecutor.

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At the time, the Tampa Bay Times called Warren’s victory a “stunning election-night upset.”

Warren is a former federal prosecutor. He ran an aggressive campaign attacking his opponent for alleged absenteeism and a lack of sensitivity toward crime victims. 

Warren got married to Alexandra Coler in 2006 in Philadelphia. The duo first met at Brandeis. Coler is a Romanian-born and grew up in Pennsylvania. The two dated on and off in college before getting married.