Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies

Bud earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Florida in 1959. He is a partner in Shorstein and Shorstein, P.A., a Jacksonville, FL accounting firm founded by his brother Jack Shorstein in 1959. In 1981, after more than 18 years in public accounting, Bud was appointed by then-Governor Bob Graham to secretary of the Department of Professional Regulation, the state agency regulating CPA’s, doctors, homebuilders and other professions. He was then appointed the Governor’s chief of staff in 1986, and in 1987, Bud accompanied the new U.S. Senator to Washington, D.C. where he served as chief of staff.

Bud is past president of the Jacksonville Jewish Center. He also previously served on the UFF Board of Directors and as Advisor for the Bob Graham Center. He was inducted into the Grand Guard Society in 2009 and received the CLAS Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.

UF’s Center for Jewish Studies was recently renamed the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies in honor of Bud’s long-standing commitment to advancing the Center’s mission of scholarship, curricular development, and broader community engagement regarding the global Jewish experience.