WILLIAM P. BUTLER has been Vice President of Harris/Ragan Management Group and Director of its Federal government activities since 1981. He is a principal advisor to the Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association in Washington, D.C. As such, Mr. Butler has concentrated his activities on providing public relations, communication innovations, and liaison services to this major labor union for the past 15 years.

Mr. Butler has also served as the Washington representative for the BEST Employers Association and the Foreign Policy Association of Panama.

Mr. Butler utilizes his more than 25 years of extensive management and administrative experience in the U.S. Federal government in all of the engagements he undertakes for public, private, and nonprofit entities. Mr. Butler worked in top level positions with the Southwest Border Regional Commission, the U.S. Departments of Commerce and Housing and Urban Development, the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, the U.S. Secret Service, and the U.S. Information Agency.

Mr. Butler is a graduate of the American University and the recipient of both the Federal government’s Distinguished Service Award and the Sustained Superior Performance Award.

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