Aramis Ayala was elected Florida’s first Black state attorney in November 2016, and made headlines the following year with her bold stance against capital punishment. Ayala says she will not seek the death penalty in capital matters, which ignited a battle with Florida Governor Rick Scott.
Ayala, a native of Saginaw, Michigan, attended school at the University of Michigan and the University of Central Florida before obtaining her law degree from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. Ayala’s rise in the legal field was delayed by a terminal cancer diagnosis that caused her to drop out of school. But after successfully combating the disease, Ayala resumed her studies and graduated.
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