Bill is the Director of the ASU Mechanics of Democracy Laboratory and a Professor of Practice at ASU Watts College of Public Service of Community Solutions. He also serves as a member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. He was first elected to the Board of Supervisors in 2016. Bill served as the Chairman of the Board in 2019 and 2022. In 2019, Bill negotiated a re-organization of the Maricopa County Elections Department with then-Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes. During the November 2022 General Election, Bill participated in 16 press conferences as the eyes of the world were on the Maricopa County Elections Department as numerous statewide races with razor thin margins were counted over a 13-day period. 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 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 American Bar Association’s Unsung Hero of Democracy Award in 2024, 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 27 years and has served on numerous non-profit boards. Bill holds a B.S. from Drake University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Bill has been married for 28 years and has three daughters ages 23, 20 and 20.