Michael W. Moore
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Michael W. Moore (born 1948) Secretary of the Florida Division of Corrections from 1999 to 2003, when James V. Crosby, Jr. took over.
Moore earned a Bachelor's Degree in Criminology and Corrections from Sam Houston State University in 1976. He worked for more than two decades in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice where he rose from a correctional officer in 1967 to regional director in 1985. During his Texas tenure, Mr. Moore also served as a personnel and training lieutenant, industrial supervisor, lieutenant, captain, and major of correctional officers, as well as warden of a maximum-security prison. He served as regional director for ten years before he joined the South Carolina system.
Moore was director of the South Carolina Department of Corrections from 1995 to 1999, when he was appointed Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections by Florida governor Jeb Bush.
