Draft:Harold F. Pryor Jr.

Harold F. Pryor was elected Broward State Attorney (Florida’s 17th Judicial Circuit) in November 2020. He leads the 2nd largest prosecutorial office in the state of Florida. He is the first Black state attorney in Broward and the first Black man to be elected state attorney in Florida.

Early Life and Education
Pryor was born in Pasco County, FL to Harold Sr. and Antoinette Pryor and was raised in Dade City, FL. Pryor is a sixth-generation Floridian. Pryor attended and graduated from Pasco High School where excelled both academically and athletically. Pryor was Student Body President and Captain of Pirate Football team. He was named and awarded 2005 Pasco County School Board's Most Outstanding Senior. Pryor received interests from football programs around the country and was offered an opportunity to play on the University of Florida Football Team.

Pryor attended and graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Arts in political science. He received the Department of Political Science’s Multicultural Scholar of the Year award. Due to his exemplary service in student government and his work with the Center for Leadership & Development, Pryor was inducted into Florida Blue Key, the state’s oldest and most prestigious leadership honor society. Pryor graduated from Nova Southeastern University’s Shepard Broad College of Law where he was a member of the Nova Trial Association and junior staff editor for the International Law Students Association’s Journal of International & Comparative Law. His law school classmates chose him to deliver the graduation commencement address.

Career
Pryor’s legal career includes experience as a prosecutor, a civil attorney in private practice, and as a corporate lawyer. He started his legal career serving as a Broward assistant state attorney, prosecuting serious criminal offenses in the Felony Trial Unit. He also worked for prominent law firms and for a telecommunications company, specializing in business litigation, the Federal Communications Commission, consumer-related issues, employment law, and commercial transactions. He earned a reputation as a skilled trial lawyer who is tough but fair.

Pryor is a past president of the historic T.J. Reddick Bar Association, Broward County’s Black bar association. Pryor also campaigned to persuade the Broward County commission to rename the North Wing of the courthouse in honor of the late Judge T.J. Reddick, Jr., the first Black attorney to open an office and practice in Broward County and the county’s first Black judge.

Broward State Attorney
Pryor won the election for State Attorney in 2020. He was re-elected in 2024 without opposition.

As the county’s chief law enforcement official, Pryor is committed to seeking justice and standing up for what is right.

Personal Life
He is married to attorney Nikeisha Pryor and they have two young children.