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Andrew H. Warren (born 1977) is an American attorney and politician. He ran for and won election to the Office of the State Attorney for the 13th Judicial Circuit, in and for Hillsborough County, Florida in 2016 and was reelected in 2020. While serving his second term, Warren was suspended from office by Florida Governor Ron Desantis on August 4, 2022 for neglect of duty and incompetence because of statements Warren signed pledging not to prosecute certain abortion restrictions or laws prohibiting gender-affirming care for minors. Warren filed suit against Desantis in Federal Court seeking reinstatement and alleged Desantis's suspension was politically motivated retaliation and a violation of Warren's First Amendment right to speech.

The case was assigned to U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkl e, who conducted a 3-day bench trial, which concluded on December 1, 2022. A decision is pending.

Early life and education
Warren was born in the city of Gainesville, Florida in 1977; he has two older brothers and a younger sister. He attended Gainesville's East Side High School, where Warren played baseball and soccer. After graduating high school in 1995, Warren won a scholarship to and attended college at Brandis University outside of Boston, where he earned a bachelor of arts in economics and political science in 1999. During his junior year, Warren studied abroad at the London School of Economics from 1997-98. Warren attended law school at Columbia Law School in New York City.

Family
On his first day at Brandis University, Warren met his wife Alexandra Warren (then Alexandra Coler), who was born in Romania but grew up in Pennsylvania. They dated on and off during the next few years and married in 2006, and they have two school age daughters. Alexandria Warren is also an attorney, having graduated from Fordham University School of Law in 2002. The family moved to Tampa in 2013.

Early Career
After graduating from Columbia Law School, Warren clerked for U.S. District Judge Samuel Conti in San Francisco. He worked as an associate at the firm Latham and Watkins, and spent eight years at the United States Department of Justice, where he primarily prosecuted white collar crime. Warren was part of the team of lawyers who secured a conviction against R. Allen Stanford, a financier who used his investment company to defraud investors in a $7 billion Ponzi scheme and was sentenced to 110 years in federal prison.

2016 Election
On January 4, 2016 Warren announced his candidacy for the Office of State Attorney for the 13th Judicial Circuit in Hillsborough County, Florida. Warren, who ran as a Democrat, challenged long-time incumbent Mark Ober, a Republican first elected in 2000 and unopposed since 2008. Ober was considered a popular and experienced incumbent, while Warren entered the race focusing on criminal justice reform after outcry from minority communities about unfair and outdated policies. On November 8, 2016 Warren was elected State Attorney; he received 288,883 votes while Ober received 283,843 votes, a difference of less than 1%.

2020 Election
Warren announced he would seek reelection on February 6, 2019, and he was reelected State Attorney on November 3, 2020, beating Republican challenger Mike Perotti. Warren received 322,506 votes compared to Perotti's 369,129 votes, a margin of more than 5%.

Criminal Justice Reforms
Upon taking office for his initial term at the start of 2017, Warren prioritized prosecution of serious fraud, violent crime, and continued serial recidivism, which Warren believed would keep dangerous individuals out of neighborhoods. Warren also enacted civil citation and diversion reforms to keep more lower-level offenders and juveniles out of the criminal justice system while still ensuring accountability for their actions. He also began initiatives to disarm domestic abusers to keep their victims and families safe, and enacted reforms aimed at decriminalizing poverty by reducing criminal action against people who are unable pay civil fines or other debt.