Florida's attorney general gets $100K part-time teaching job at UF

[Zorro]

This spring, he’s leading a 15-student seminar on constitutional law.

Within months of Gov. Ron DeSantis handpicking him as Florida’s new attorney general last winter, James Uthmeier landed a lucrative side gig: a $100,000-a-year teaching assignment at University of Florida’s law school for two hours of instruction per week.

The former DeSantis aide’s paycheck makes him the highest-paid adjunct professor at UF’s Levin College of Law in at least a quarter century, according to compensation records dating back to 1997. His salary is eight times higher than what the median law school adjunct earns, and comes as the DeSantis administration leans on Florida’s 40 public universities and colleges to justify their spending practices.

Since August, Uthmeier has been moonlighting in the classroom on Monday evenings. The attorney general — a political lightning rod with relatively few academic credentials — lectured 27 law students last fall in an upper-level course examining, among other things, “the implications of executive overreach,” according to syllabi. This spring, he’s leading a 15-student seminar on constitutional law.

The seminar syllabus touts his credentials as Florida’s top legal official, promising students that “Professor Uthmeier will highlight real-life examples of separation of powers and federalism at work.”

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2026/02/17/uthmeier-uf-adjunct-teaching-contract-pay-attorney-general/

This is the same James Uthmeier who was found in contempt of court by a federal judge last year for encouraging the violation of her restraining order to stop enforcing a new state law that criminalizes undocumented immigrants when they arrive in Florida.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Adjunct faculty are usually paid next to nothing.

[Easterncedar]

2. See also New College

Ex speaker Richard Corcoran and Chris Rufo are getting record-setting buckets of cash to destroy that school. They are handing more cash to cronies aling the way. Florida is being despoiled by DeSantis in broad daylight.

[dameatball]

3. My son graduated from Levin college of Law. I'll have to see what he makes of this later.