Bill Wrabley is an experienced professional, dedicated to public service and committed to an East Whiteland we can call home. Bill is married with two young children, one who is currently attending school in the Great Valley School District and one who will be next year. As a result he is committed to ensuring that East Whiteland remains great place to live and work.

After graduating from Saint Joseph's University with a degree in accounting, Bill was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. He served for nine years as a financial manager in the Air Force. Bill's first assignment was as a base budget officer at Cannon AFB in New Mexico where he was responsible for the management of an annual budget of $40 million. An Air Force base is like a small city with all the same activities and infrastructure from roads and buildings that have to be repaired to child care, from playgrounds to police forces. Bill was responsible for ensuring that money was allocated each year to keep the running and that is money prudently executed. As a result of his outstanding work, Bill was awarded the Armed Forces Meritorious Service Medal. A medal not normally award to an officer of such junior grade.

Bill reprised this role as the base budget officer at Howard AFB in Panama. During his year there he participated in Operation Just Cause, the liberation of Panama. On the day of the invasion, Bill lead a 20 man litter team taking dead and wounded from aircraft into the mobile hospital. On day two of the invasion he took over the fuel sales operation at Tocumen International Airport in an effort to open the airport.

While serving on the budget staff of Air Combat Command, Bill was hand picked to be the first Air Force budget officer to deploy to Saudi Arabia in support of Desert Shield. His last assignment in the Air Force was on the Secretary of the Air Forces Staff, responsible for the Air Force's $1.6 billion training and education budget.

Bill left the Air Force to attend law school. While working full time at Saint Joseph's University as an assistant alumni director, he attended Widener Law School part time. Continuing to serve others, Bill developed a mentor program at Saint Joseph's which linked students with an alumnus in a career field of the student's choice to help the student make an informed decision about his or her career choice. He also established an alumni community service program.

Since graduating law school Bill has work as a trial attorney on the defense side, representing manufacturers in product liability and contractual disputes, communities in zoning and land use conflicts and individuals, retail stores and trucking companies in accidents.

Bill continues to serve his community as a member of the East Whiteland Zoning Hearing Board and as an active member of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. As a member of the zoning board he has striven to protect the nature of the community and yet, allow for the property owner to improve his land according to his or her desires. He has always advocated a collaborative problem solving process which involves the property owner, the surrounding neighbors and the board in an effort to come to an agreement.

Since September 11, 2001, Bill has deployed twice with his National Guard unit, the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, 1-104 Cavalry. He has served on peacekeeping missions to Bosnia and recently to the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt enforcing the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. In 2008 Bill commanded an observation post on a mountain top on a desert island in the Red Sea for four months. He also lead an emergency response team in the northern Sinai, patrolling the boarders of Egypt, Israeli and the Gaza Strip.

Now that Bill has returned to his family, he would like to use the skills he has accumulated during his career to help preserve and improve the quality of life here in East Whiteland; work to make our local government more responsive to the needs of its residents and assist our local businesses as they struggle with our current economic downturn.