Pam Bondi is a former Attorney General of the United States (February 2025 – April 2026) and former Attorney General of Florida (2011–2019). In May 2026 she was appointed to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the first law-and-policy-coordinator appointment to the body in the second Trump administration.
Background
Bondi served as Florida's 37th Attorney General from January 4, 2011 to January 8, 2019. She was confirmed as the 87th Attorney General of the United States by a 54–46 Senate vote on February 4, 2025 and sworn in on February 5, 2025. President Trump removed her from the role on April 2, 2026, with reporting attributing the dismissal to dissatisfaction over her handling of the Epstein files (Source: en.wikipedia.org).
PCAST appointment
Per Axios reporting dated 27 May 2026, President Trump appointed Bondi to PCAST on 26 May 2026, "with the stated charge of facilitating coordination between the administration and the tech executives on the council" (Source: axios.com). She was "the first law-and-policy-coordinator appointment to PCAST in the second" Trump administration.
PCAST is constituted as a scientific advisory council; an appointment whose stated purpose is coordination between the administration and the industry members of that council positions the body partly as a liaison channel, which bears on how its outputs should be read. Axios framed the move as consistent with a broader pattern of routing political-coordination work through AI-industry channels that previously ran through cabinet departments (Source: axios.com).
Relationships
- related: President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) — the body appointed to
- related: AI Policy (umbrella), Regulatory Capture in AI Policy, Marc Andreessen