Patricia Conners is currently Associate Deputy Attorney General under Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, responsible for many of the Office's enforcement and litigation initiatives, among other things. In that capacity, she oversees the Antitrust, Economic Crimes, Lemon Law and Civil Rights Divisions. She also is currently supervising the state's legal and enforcement response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster and was the supervising attorney representing Florida in the multistate negotiations with the five major mortgage servicers over various issues arising from the foreclosure crisis. Those negotiations concluded earlier this year with a 49-state $25 billion settlement, of which Florida, as one of the hardest-hit states, received $8.7 billion. Ms. Conners continues to serve as the Director of the Antitrust Division for the Attorney General's Office, where, since 1995, she has been responsible for implementing and overseeing the Attorney General's state and federal antitrust enforcement efforts.
She is board-certified in Antitrust and Trade Regulation by the Florida Bar and is a past chair of the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Certification Committee of the Florida Bar. She is also active in the Antitrust Law section of the ABA, where she has held a variety of leadership positions.
She was Chair of the NAAG Multistate Antitrust Task Force from 2001 to 2005, a position through which she coordinated multistate antitrust enforcement efforts and developed and ensured the implementation of policy related to Task Force initiatives.
Ms. Conners received both her undergraduate and J.D. degrees from the University of Florida.