Canady’s apparent victory comes at the end of the 2023 Legislative Session and an intense, behind-the-scenes competition between her, fellow Tampa Bay lawmaker Kevin Steele and northeast Florida. Jennifer Canady, the director of a science-based program at a private Christian school in Polk County and the wife of a Florida Supreme Court Justice, has secured enough support of her fellow freshman Republican House legislators that she is now in line to be Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives after the 2028 elections. Canady would.