Florida's attorney general gets $100K part-time teaching job at UF
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.”
Uthmeier’s adjunct job isn’t unusual; attorneys general around the country have taken on part-time instructional roles at state universities. But the pay — for a job that typically pays a few thousand dollars per course — is raising eyebrows in the legal community.
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