Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will succeed Marco Rubio in the U.S. Senate, Governor Ron DeSantis announced Thursday.

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ announcement that he’s appointing Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Marco Rubio places the 49-year-old Plant City native in an exotic locale far from home.

Moody, whom Gov. Ron DeSantis announced as the replacement for future Secretary of State Marco Rubio once the exiting Senator is confirmed by his soon-to-be-former colleagues next week, will be buoyed by the eponymous Moody for Florida committee, according to Federal Election Commission records.

Moody, a former prosecutor and judge, has a record of “delivering results,” DeSantis said as he announced his choice at an Orlando hotel.

After Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was tapped for consideration as the nation’s next secretary of state, all eyes have been on Gov. Ron DeSantis and the power he has to appoint a new leader to Rubio’s seat.

Gov. Ron DeSantis praised Moody, who has served as Florida's attorney general since 2019, for fighting against policies he described as part of the Democratic Party's "woke agenda."

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis chose Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to be the state’s next senator, serving out the next two years of Sen. Marco Rubio’s term. In an Orlando news conference, DeSantis said Moody had “a demonstrated record of delivering results” on immigration and fighting President Joe Biden’s administration.

DeSantis said he wanted an appointee who would be strong on immigration enforcement, support cutting the federal bureaucracy and fight “the woke agenda.”

Sen. Marco Rubio has been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to be secretary of state giving Gov. DeSantis a pick to fill his seat.

Moody, 49, becomes the second woman to represent Florida in the U.S. Senate, after Paula Hawkins, a Republican who served one term in the 1980s.