Meeting Speaker for Sept. 23, 2013 - District Governor Bill Short

DG Bill Short

We are pleased to present our speaker for next week’s program; Bill Short, a member of the Rotary Club of Oroville Sunrise is our District Governor and this will be his Official Visit to our club. He will be accompanied by Alma, his wife of 17 years. They have six children and 13 grandchildren. In keeping with the International Theme, Engage Rotary – Change Lives, Bill believes that we will embrace change this year and knows that all living things do change. He uses as an example how Linking Hands and hearts with health agencies around the world will eradicate Polio.

Bill was born and raised in Los Angeles, lived in Hawaii and then Modesto. He graduated cum laude from Cal Northern and obtained his Juris Doctorate and passed the bar in 1987. For more than 20 years he has represented indigent defendants of Butte County at all levels, from drunk and disorderly to homicides.

Bill was also an investigative reporter at the Record Searchlight in Redding and won several awards. He has about 20 years’ experience in radio, TV and newspapers.

Bill says the best job in Rotary, is being an Assistant Governor. He was an AG in Area 2 (Marysville, Yuba City and South Yuba County Sunrise) for one year and AG in Area 1 (Gridley, Oroville, Oroville-Sunrise) for three years. He then became an Executive AG and Chaired the Mid-Year Retreat and the 2011 District Assembly.

We welcome Bill and Alma to the Rotary Club of Sacramento.