When incoming Gov. Rick Scott was putting his transition team together, he tapped two out-of-state attorneys and a cadre of Jeb Bush advisers.

A consummate outsider -- Scott has lived in Florida for less than 10 years, far removed from Tallahassee -- the former health-care executive imported close confidantes from Washington, D.C., and Tennessee to lead his team. Like him, both are lawyers.

Transition team chairwoman Enu Mainigi, a corporate attorney with Williams & Connolly, has been through the wars with Scott. She advised him after his departure from Columbia/HCA and she carried Scott's winning case against Florida's campaign finance law during the GOP primary.

Mainigi also connected Scott to Tony Fabrizio, the hard-nosed Republican consultant who masterminded the insurgent campaign that knocked out GOP insider Bill McCollum. She went on to vet lieutenant governor candidates, leading to Scott's selection of state Rep. Jennifer Carroll.

Like Scott, Mainigi is a loyal Republican (she contributed $1,000 to John McCain in 2008) and a creature of corporate America, with expertise in the health-care industry. Among her chief clients: big pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and insurance.

Unlike Gov. Charlie Crist, who relied heavily on gut instincts and political calculations, Scott relies on close, trusted advisers who exhibit workaholic tendencies. As chair of the transition team, Mainigi leads the field. 

In one of her rare interviews, the low-profile Mainigi described herself as "an impatient person." That attribute, along with her skills as a litigator, suggest that the Scott transition will be executed with razor-sharp efficiency.

Mainigi says the transition team is looking for people "who are optimistic and excited to go work for the government, maybe people who haven't worked for the government."

Mary Anne Carter, executive director of the transition team, brings similar intensity and urgency to the task. Also an attorney, the Tennessean headed Scott's "Conservatives for Patients' Rights" political action committee, which ran a national campaign opposing the Democrats' health-care legislation.

Leading Scott's policy and research team in Florida, Carter joined Mainigi in interviewing lieutenant governor prospects.

Like Mainigi, Carter is a staunch Republican, having worked for former presidential candidates Fred Thompson and Bob Dole.

The outside combination of Mainigi and Carter is complemented by nine Florida insiders, who comprise Scott's transition advisory board.

In selections designed to reassure Florida's Republican establishment, panelists include three Bush administration veterans: former Lt. Gov. Toni Jennings and former Bush chiefs of staff Sally Bradshaw and Kathleen Shanahan.

Jennings, Bush's lieutenant governor from 2003-2006, served in the Florida House from 1976-1980 and from 1980-2000 in the state Senate, where she was twice elected president before being term-limited.

The former elementary school teacher reputedly was Bush's preferred choice to be his successor. But she left active politics. She has been involved in the family construction business, Jack Jennings & Sons, and serves on several boards.