Parker Destin was born and raised in Destin (named after his great-great-great grandfather Leonard Destin) and graduated from Fort Walton Beach High School.
He went to the University of Tampa and the Florida Coastal School of Law.
After becoming a partner at Anchors Smith and Grimsley, a local law practice in Fort Walton Beach, he decided that a legal life wasn’t what he wanted for himself and got into the family business—local restaurants on the Emerald Coast.
He’s also served in the public eye – he won election with a group of reformers to the Destin City Council, where he served a term. He sits on the Florida Historical Commission and is rolling off his appointment to the Mid-Bay Bridge Authority.
Parker bills himself as the ‘common sense policies’ candidate and answered our questions about what that means. In short, he
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