Jeffrey D. Kottkamp (born November 12, 1960) is an American lawyer and politician from Florida who served as the state's 17th lieutenant governor from 2007 until 2011. Kottkamp, a Republican, served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2006. In September 2006 he was selected as the running mate for Republican candidate for governor Charlie Crist. Crist and Kottkamp were elected in November 2006, and Kottkamp was subsequently sworn in as the 17th Lieutenant Governor of Florida on January 2, 2007. As lieutenant governor he served as chairman of the board of Space Florida, chairman of Florida's Children and Youth Cabinet, chairman of the Florida Sports Foundation, and had oversight responsibility for the Governor's Office of Drug Control, the Office of Adoption and Child Prote