Read about the Senate confirmation of former Florida state attorney general Pam Bondi as the country's 87th attorney general.

A Tampa-area native, Pam Bondi became the second Floridian and the third woman to hold the office of U.S. attorney general.

The Senate confirmed Pam Bondi as U.S. attorney general Tuesday evening, putting a longtime ally of Donald Trump at the helm of a Justice Department that has already been rattled by the firings of career employees seen as disloyal to the Republican president.