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County record

Lee County

County seat Fort Myers.

No published research

This county has a page, a verified officials roster, and not yet a record.

We have not published research for Lee County: no claim-backed record sections and no story sections. What has cleared verification so far is the roster below, office by office, with its sources and its gaps stated on the page. Everything else waits until it has been through the same process.

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Who holds office, and what the office pays

Names from each office's own site, party labels from the Supervisor of Elections official results, and next elections from the Supervisor's offices-up-for-election page, compiled 2026-08-06. Salary figures are the FY 2025-26 statutory amounts computed by the Legislature's Office of Economic and Demographic Research. Numbered rows have notes below the table.

OfficeOfficeholderPartyLast electedNext electionStatutory salary, reference amount
Sheriff 1 Carmine Marceno REP 2024 2028 $269,731
Clerk of Circuit Court 2 KEVIN C. KARNES Not yet verified Not yet verified 2028 $201,261
Supervisor of Elections 3 Jenna Persons-Mulicka Not yet verified Not yet verified 2028 $201,261

This roster is partial: it lists the offices verified so far. Property appraiser, tax collector, county commission, and school board are pending per-county verification and are absent, not omitted silently. Lee is a charter county, so the Chapter 145 formula may not apply and each figure is a statutory reference amount, not necessarily the salary paid. Figures exclude the certification supplement of up to $2,000 and any voluntary reduction, which the state does not track. Source: EDR, Salaries of Elected County Constitutional Officers and School District Officials, FY 2025-26 (archived), which notes it computes these as a service and encourages independent verification.

Row notes and verification record
  1. 1. Won the 2024 general election with 90.62 percent, per the county Supervisor of Elections' official results. Party as printed in those results. Next election: The office is elected at the general election in each year that is a multiple of four, for a 4-year term, per s. 100.041(1), F.S.; the next such general is November 2028. This is a charter county; charter counties may vary term structures, so the statutory cycle is the default rule, not a per-county verification..
  2. 2. No contested general election for this office appears in the county results archive for 2016, 2020, or 2024. Unopposed candidates do not appear on Florida ballots, so an unopposed incumbent leaves no results record. Next election: The office is elected at the general election in each year that is a multiple of four, for a 4-year term, per s. 100.041(1), F.S.; the next such general is November 2028. This is a charter county; charter counties may vary term structures, so the statutory cycle is the default rule, not a per-county verification..
  3. 3. The most recent contested general election for this office was 2016, won by Tommy Doyle with 53.90 percent, per the county Supervisor of Elections' official results. The current officeholder is someone else, so their own arrival in office is not documented there; the pattern fits a later unopposed election or an appointment. Next election: The office is elected at the general election in each year that is a multiple of four, for a 4-year term, per s. 98.015(1), F.S.; the next such general is November 2028. This is a charter county; charter counties may vary term structures, so the statutory cycle is the default rule, not a per-county verification..

Statewide roster pass, county officials acquisition plan phase two. Supervisor of elections name from the Division of Elections' own supervisors list (an official state record); clerk name, recorded verbatim in the source's own capitalization, from the Florida Clerks of Court Operations Corporation roster (a legislatively created governmental corporation); sheriff name from the Florida Sheriffs Association directory (a professional association, the weakest source in this file, which sets the file tier). Election cycle and term from ss. 100.041(1) and 98.015(1), Florida Statutes. Party affiliation and election records added 2026-08-06 from the county Supervisor of Elections' own official results archive, which is where county-office results live; party attaches only where the contested-race winner is the current officeholder, and is left unverified with the reason stated otherwise. Partial roster: three of the county's elected offices. Property appraiser, tax collector, county commission, and school board require per-county sources and are not yet listed. Party for every office awaits the county results archive pull.

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