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Jill Casey DeSantis (née Black; born June 26, 1980) is a former American news and television show anchor and current First Lady of Florida, the wife of 46th Governor Ron DeSantis. She won a local Emmy as on an on-air host and was awarded two local Emmy nominations, one for her documentary, Champion, The JT Townsend Story and one for her investigative crime series, Real Life CSI. DeSantis lives with her husband and three young children in the Florida Governor's Mansion in Tallahassee, Florida. Contents •	1Early life and education •	2Career •	3First Lady of Florida •	4Family •	5References

First Lady of Florida

Children & Youth Cabinet Appointed by Governor DeSantis to serve as Chair of the Florida Children and Youth Cabinet, First Lady DeSantis is leading the Cabinet to plan, manage and deliver solutions that are intended to improve health, self-sufficiency, safety and economic stability and quality of life for children. The Cabinet is focused on ways to prevent youth suicide, particularly the role of mentorship as a critical response. DeSantis launched two workgroups to cut down on youth suicide. The first workgroup has been charged, “to find and review current-situation data statistics” and the other will “research the best and most-promising prevention efforts, particularly regarding mentorship.”

Environmental Initiatives

First Lady DeSantis organized the creation and launch of a new water quality dashboard, Protecting Florida Together, to ensure government accountability and public access to key water quality data. First Lady DeSantis also participated in a Recovery Redfish Release to address the devastating effects of red tide. "I’ve heard from those throughout Florida who understand that our water must be safe for our families, visitors and economy."

Mental Health & Substance Abuse Initiatives

First Lady DeSantis has hosted listening sessions on mental health to identify ways to continue statewide improvement. The Governor and First Lady met with a number of elected officials at the Governor’s Mansion to discuss ways in which the state could help Floridians get better access to mental health and substance abuse services. The First Lady announced her Hope for Healing Florida campaign, a multi-agency initiative to help Floridians access information and resources and avert drug addiction and mental health issues.

Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

Florida First Lady DeSantis launched a new part of the Hope for Healing initiative with UF Health to help mothers and their unborn babies who are addicted to opioids. According to the National Institute for Health, every 15 minutes a baby is born suffering from opioid withdrawal. First Lady DeSantis is now working with expectant mothers who use drugs to help them stop, protecting their lives and their babies.

Advocacy for Children

As part of her Hope for Healing Florida initiative, First Lady DeSantis launched H.O.P.E. Innovators, a statewide community-based team that will help connect students and parents to mental health information and resources. DeSantis also led a student roundtable at Hillsborough High School to discuss the importance of reducing the stigma surrounding mental health, and there announced the creation of Hope Ambassadors, who will provide peer-to-peer student mentorship to help foster a kind and compassionate environment in schools. First Lady DeSantis’ launched “The Facts. Your Future.”, a campaign that will focus on the facts and education behind drugs and drug abuse as well as teaching children this information at a younger age. First Lady DeSantis also announced the installation of telehealth portals in all public schools in the six Northwest Florida counties hardest hit by Hurricane Michael. Through the portal, students can receive counseling and mental health evaluations from a licensed professional without ever leaving school. First Lady DeSantis also announced education company ABCmouse is offering school districts to use two of their digital apps from their online learning program, one for reading and one for math, for free, as part of a pilot program for prekindergarten through second graders. First Lady DeSantis also established a Children’s Corner in the Florida Library in the Governor’s Mansion in celebration of Florida Literacy Week. Story Time Tours at the Mansion is a new option under Governor’s Mansion tours where the children’s books can be accessed.

First Responders

At the Governor’s Mansion, First Lady DeSantis held a listening session with Florida’s first responder leaders to discuss the need to provide better emotional support to law enforcement, firefighters, and emergency medical responders due to the growing crisis of depression, PTSD, and suicide in their ranks.

The Creation of First Lady's Medal for Courage, Commitment & Service

In February of 2019, she established the First Lady’s Medal for Courage, Commitment and Service to honor Floridians who have made a positive impact in their communities. First Lady DeSantis presented the medal to Washington County resident, Angel Belcher, for her selfless contributions to her community following Hurricane Michael. Ms. Belcher was also praised by President Donald Trump for her volunteerism.

Family

Governor and First Lady DeSantis have a daughter named Madison, a son named Mason and recently announced the birth of their daughter, Mamie. She was the first baby born in the Florida Governor's Mansion in 60 years.

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Why is there no listing of her parents
I have tons of searches and apparently Casey Desantis doesn't have parents. Why is that? Is it even possible to be born without zero parents? What are they hiding? Could they be illegal immigrants that the gov is so fond of? And by the ronny shipping people, human beings across state lines is trafficking. 174.240.66.184 (talk) 18:07, 17 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Or maybe she just does not want to talk about them? Cecilia Phalen Abbott does not have her parents listed. Mitch199811 (talk) 17:54, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
 * @174.240.66.184 Her father is Robert Black ophthalmologist ,information about him has disappeared, some bad busdiness dealing in Ohio,read a while ago,looks like been erased 69.124.178.177 (talk) 00:18, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

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On “incumbent” vs “current”
Every other first spouse of US states are referred to as “incumbents” of their role. Why is Casey DeSantis any different here? AKTC3 (talk) 15:54, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Zanesville?
all this edit warring to reinsert Zanesville OH as her place of birth... what's the source for that? Because this source says she was born in Columbus. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:44, 2 June 2024 (UTC)


 * My revert was via Huggle, I wasn't aware of the edit war and made the revert as unexplained removal of text/breaking of a template. Appears like there's some confusion over her place of birth; this article states Zanesville. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 16:54, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
 * That source is used inline, though it said nothing about Zanesville in prose. The Miami Valley Today source says that it uses the Montgomery County Public Health Department for their info, so I personally trust that over a "who is" reference from across the pond. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:38, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Sorry. I was responding to an editor who was removing content without justification. I assumed that it was vandalism. — Eyer (he/him) If you reply, add   to your message. 14:50, 3 June 2024 (UTC)