Bill was re-elected to another
four year term on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in 2020.
Maricopa County is the fourth largest county in the United States with a
population of over 4.5 million people. Bill represents over 900,000 residents
as a Maricopa County Supervisor. He was first elected to the Board of
Supervisors in 2016. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Board, a
position he held in 2019 when, among other things, Bill negotiated a
re-organization of the Maricopa County Elections Department with then-Maricopa
County Recorder Adrian Fontes. Prior to joining the Board of Supervisors, Bill
served on the Phoenix City Council from 2009-2016, including a stint as Vice
Mayor in 2013.
Bill has been a lifelong
Republican. He founded the Teenage Republican Club at his high school,
was an officer in the Iowa Federation of College Republicans and also served as
a Republican legislative district chair and the Secretary of the Maricopa
County Republican Committee in the early 2000s. Bill also led the Arizona
Republican Party’s election integrity efforts in 2006 and 2008 organizing a
cadre of poll watchers and attorneys to ensure that every eligible vote was
counted.
Bill has been featured in many
publications regarding his work as a member of the Maricopa County Board of
Supervisors particularly as it relates to the operation of elections including
the New York Times, Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The Economist, The New
Yorker, der Spiegel, Rolling Stone, and Reuters. He is a frequent contributor
on CNN and appeared on CBS Evening News, PBS, MSNBC, BBC, ABC, as well as
several local channels on this same topic.
Bill testified on October 7,
2021 before The United States House Oversight and Reform Committee in
Washington, DC, about election integrity in regards to the results of Maricopa
County’s 2020 General Election. Bill,
along with then-Chairman of the Board Jack Sellers, detailed the steps taken by
the County to ensure election integrity and expressed concerns with the recent
“audit” of Maricopa County ballots and equipment by Arizona Senate contractors.
Bill is the recipient of
various awards, commending his years of leadership, service, and defense of
democracy including The Truman Foundation’s Joseph E. Stevens Public Service
Award in 2022, The Arizona Republic’s 2021 Arizonan of the Year, and The
Phoenix Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 in 2010.
Bill has practiced law in
Phoenix, Arizona for 25 years and serves on numerous non-profit boards.
He has also been very active in law-related education serving as a
regional coordinator and attorney-coach at the high school and intercollegiate
levels since graduating from law school. Bill holds a B.S. from Drake
University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Bill served on Gov. Doug
Ducey’s transition team in 2014 and was appointed by President George W. Bush
to the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation in 2006. Bill also was
appointed to the Federal Communications Commission Intergovernmental Advisory
Committee in 2018. In 2019, Bill was
selected by Gov. Ducey to serve on the Workforce Arizona Council. In 2022, Bill became a Fellow of The Aspen
Institute’s Rodel Fellowships in Public Leadership Program.
Bill has been married for 25
years and has three daughters ages 21, 18 and 18.