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Nationwide Offshore Supply Vessel, Mini-Supply Vessel Provider Guice Offshore Salutes Florida’s New Department of Business and Professional Regulation Secretary Julie Imanuel Brown

Congratulations Florida DBPR Secretary Julie Emanuel Brown from Guice Offshore

Guice Offshore, one of America’s most respected offshore supply vessel and mini supply vessel providers, congratulates Julie Imanuel Brown, whom Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appointed as Secretary of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) today, February 18, 2021. 

The appointment is effective Monday, February 22, 2021.

The DBPR is responsible for regulating a number of businesses and professions that operate in Florida’s marine and maritime industries, among which include harbor pilots, professional engineers, surveyors and mappers, geologists, and construction and building contractors, among others.  Guice Offshore’s “GO America” offshore supply vessel is based in Port Everglades adjacent to the City of Fort Lauderdale.  

“I’m pleased to appoint Julie Imanuel Brown as Secretary of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. “Julie brings a unique blend of experience in the private and public sectors, as well as the legal field, including over 10 years of service on the Florida Public Service Commission and various corporate positions. I’m confident she will do a great job in our continued fight to cut red tape and ease regulation on our businesses and hard-working Floridians.”  

“I’m honored to be appointed by Governor DeSantis to this important position, which impacts millions of Floridians,” said Julie Imanuel Brown. “As Secretary, I will work to build on the Governor’s foundation to implement meaningful occupational licensing reform, as well with business leaders and business owners during Florida’s economic recovery.” 

About Julie Brown, Secretary, Department of Business and Professional Regulation

Julie Imanuel Brown has served on the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) since 2011 and served as Commission Chairman from January 2016 to January 2018.  In this role, she has served as one of five Commissioners responsible for ensuring Floridians receive electricity, natural gas, telephone services, water and wastewater in a safe, reasonable, and reliable manner. 

During her two-year chairmanship on the PSC, the State of Florida experienced massive impacts for the first time in over a decade from multiple catastrophic hurricanes.  In addition to serving as chief administrative officer and presiding over all technical hearings as chief judge during that time, Chair Brown led the PSC’s review and recommendation for future action to bolster Florida’s electric utility storm-hardening efforts for years to come. In addition, Chair Brown presided and led all agenda conferences, service hearings and other administrative proceedings, while also being responsible for oversight of a $25,000,000 budget and a technical staff of approximately 280 employees. 

Before serving on the PSC, Brown was Associate Legal Counsel of First American Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, where she handled a variety of legal issues in the Eastern, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic Regions, including corporate compliance with regulatory authorities.

She previously worked as a corporate attorney at Shumaker, Loop and Kendrick, LLP in Tampa; Director of Franchise Sales & Development for Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc.; and as an Assistant City Attorney for the City of Tampa.

Brown is very active in her community and dedicated to public service.  In 2020, Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Commissioner Brown to serve as one of 11 on the Florida Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission to ensure the statewide observance of the centennial of women’s suffrage and she has previously served on the City of Tampa’s Architectural Review Commission.  Additionally, Brown serves on the Board of Directors and is a member of the National Association of Regulatory Commissioners (NARUC) and previously served as Chairman of the Florida Legislature’s Study Committee on Investor-Owned Water & Wastewater Utility Systems.

Commissioner Brown graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Florida, where she was the recipient of the Outstanding Female Leader award, President of Florida Blue Key, inducted into the Hall of Fame, and received the Dean’s Cup for the College of Journalism and Communications. She earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, is a member of The Florida Bar, and a member of Leadership Florida, Class XXXIII.

Commissioner Brown also holds a Florida Real Estate Broker’s License. 

She and her husband have two children.

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Guice Offshore (“GO”) was founded in May 2009 and is widely considered to be the U.S. Flag leader in the operation of dynamically positioned mini supply vessels and offshore supply vessels for the “specialty” marketplace.

GO regularly provides vessel and technical services to a broad spectrum of critical industries like aerospace; documentary and film production; oil and gas exploration and production; government and military operations; environmental and disaster response and recovery; ocean-based inspection, maintenance and repair; ocean-based science and research missions; salvage efforts; geotechnical and survey projects; and wind power, clean energy and alternative energy operations.

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