Two Florida county commissions are getting new members.
Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed two new County Commissioners this month. One is taking a seat on the Lee County Board of Commissioners. The other will assume a seat on the Holmes County Commission.
DeSantis appointed Patricia “Trish” Petrosky to the Lee County Commission, home to Fort Myers. Petrosky is replacing Mike Greenwell.
Greenwell has served in the District 5 seat of the County Commission since July 2022. That’s when DeSantis appointed Greenwell to that panel. Greenwell was elected Chair of the Lee County Commission in 2024 and was re-elected to that post that year. But he passed away on Oct. 9 after a battle with cancer, and there were memorial services in Lee County. DeSantis also ordered that the American and Florida flags fly at half-staff on Oct. 21.
Greenwell was with the Boston Red Sox Major League Baseball organization for about a dozen years. That franchise has Spring Training operations in Fort Myers, and Greenwell returned to Lee County to raise a family and entered local business.
Petrosky is the Executive Assistant at Evangelical Christian School in Fort Myers. She was also a former realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices and a member of the Naples Area Board of Realtors.
Meanwhile, in Holmes County, DeSantis has appointed Charles “Wade” Ellenburg to the County Commission.
Ellenburg fills the District 2 seat on the Holmes County Board after Brandon Newsom was suspended from the panel this year following felony charges. Newsom was involved in allegations of violating bail bond laws in the Northwest Florida county that borders the Georgia state line, according to a report in the Holmes County News.
Ellenburg is a farmer in Holmes County and is a member of the Florida Farm Bureau Holmes County Board of Directors. He also serves on the Fruit and Vegetables State Advisory Board for that bureau. Ellenburg was also elected to the Holmes County Value Adjustment Board this year.
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