Bill Kircher was elected to the Town Council in April 2020. Bill and his wife, Valerie, a former teacher, have enjoyed living in Ross ever since buying their home here nine years ago. They have three grown children, the youngest of whom taught at Bacich School. Bill is an attorney (Stanford Law School) with broad-based experience in state and local government. He is a former Assistant United States Attorney (Los Angeles), and before that was the principal legislative aide to a Bay Area State Senator and a committee consultant for the California State Senate Committee on Health and Welfare. In addition to his government service, he has been a trial attorney in private practice, handling primarily complex litigation with an emphasis on securities and intellectual property issues.  He has taught a Constitutional law course at Stanford through its continuing studies program and serves as a general partner of an investment partnership that owns and develops commercial properties in other parts of California and five other states