Laurie Pizzo
Spring Hill

Commissioner Pizzo was raised in the suburbs of Chicago and made Florida home after graduating from The Sawyer College of Business (Indiana) 19 years ago. She met and married John in 1992. Laurie has been a Multi-Million $$ Producer with Century 21 Alliance Realty since 2004. Her other past accomplishments included rising to the level of Sales Director and earning 3 company cars and awards from Mary Kay Cosmetics while devoting 8 years as the sole caretaker of her ailing mother. Commissioner Pizzo is a member of the Brooksville Rotary, the Greater Hernando County Chamber of Commerce, the Florida and National Association of Realtors, and the Realtors Political Action Committee.

Over the years, Commissioner Pizzo also has dedicated herself to community service activities and programs such as the Hospice Kids Foundation and The Dawn Center of Hernando County, a domestic and sexual violence shelter. She is currently the District Representative for the Florida Republican Women’s Network while having served previously as the National Committeewoman for the Florida Federation of Young Professional Republicans. She has worked on several political campaigns including Field Representative for the Republican Party of Florida to Representative David Russell, now a sitting Hernando County Commissioner. She is a 2007 recipient of the Tillie Fowler Excellence in Public Service Series Scholarship, a statewide leadership training program for women. She is one of six highly qualified women selected for the scholarship-based program supported by the Republican National Committee. Commissioner Pizzo is also a 2007 graduate of Leadership Hernando for the Greater Hernando County Chamber of Commerce and a 2007 graduate of Hernando County Association of Realtors Leadership Development Program.