Margaret “Missy” Timmins

Margaret “Missy” Timmins is the Managing Partner of Timmins Consulting, LLC, and one of the most experienced political advisors in Florida. Missy brings decades of Florida lobbying experience, as well as valuable experience from the legislative and agency staff perspectives, to her work with clients.

Timmins started as an Information Specialist with the Florida Department of Labor and Security, which required working closely with the agency’s legislative team. These experiences sparked a lifelong passion for developing public policy in Florida.

Missy was a legislative aide to Senator Jack Latvala in the Florida Senate from 1995 to 2001, where she learned the Florida legislative system from the ground up, spending seven years learning the budget and bill process.

She has worked in the Florida political process for over three decades, as department staff, senate staff, and for the past twenty years as a contract lobbyist.

Missy founded her own boutique lobbying firm in 2005 and represents clients from across the state in a variety of policy areas. Through Timmins Consulting, Missy provides lobbying representation and government affairs consulting to a variety of trade associations, publicly traded companies, small businesses, and local governments. Missy specializes in the policy areas of environment and natural resources, local government, appropriations, regulated industries, and health care.

Missy was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease shortly after graduating from college. She continued to monitor her disease and pursue her professional ambitions. At the age of 46, she was told she would need a kidney transplant.

Missy received a life saving kidney transplant in January 2023 after spending four years and nine months on dialysis. Like many patients, she spent six years on and off the transplant list. She advocates to increase organ donation and to give a voice to renal patients and their families navigating kidney failure.