Candidate for
City; City of Santa Rosa High School District

Bill Carle is Of Counsel to the law firm he co-founded, Carle, Mackie Power & Ross, with offices in downtown Santa Rosa.

He is a Managing Member of CGF Equities and a Principal Shareholder is a development firm. The entities are actively engaged in real estate development, construction management and property management in the North Bay. The firms asre actively involved in development projects in downtown Santa Rosa and elsewhere, with an emphasis on a full range of housing, inclduing moderate and low income, and commercial development. The projects are designed to meet or exceed green standards as sustainability is a key mission of the firms. He has been a licensed real estate broker in California since 1981. He is a member of the California Association of Realtors and NORBAR. Bill is an active one third owner of McNab Ridge Winery in Mendocino County and he and his family have been in the Sonoma County grape growing business for over 25 years.

As a lawyer, he has had extensive experience in commercial and civil litigation in federal and state courts representing clients in real estate and environmental law, contracts, partnership dissolution, unfair competition and other business torts, condemnation and construction defects, and employment law. He has substantial real estate transactional experience in land use, leasing, development, purchase and sales documentation. He has represented wineries and other business clients before public agencies on land use and other regulatory matters. He has represented a number of businesses as their General Corporate Counsel, providing a wide range of legal services as well as advice on operational and general business matters. Mr. Carle has been a peer reviewed AV Rated lawyer for about 24 years. In addition to serving as Judge pro tem for Sonoma County Superior Court, Mr. Carle serves as a private arbitrator and mediator. Mr. Carle was a partner in Anderson, Zeigler, Disharoon, Gallagher & Gray, and partner at Marron, Reid & Sheehy prior to founding Carle, Mackie, Power & Ross LLP as partner in 1998.

Professional and Community Associations

• Santa Rosa School Board: elected to board in 1998, 2002, and 2006 elected President in 2000, 2001, 2006 and 2010,
• Member of the Railroad Square Association Board of Directors 2008, 2009, 2010
• Past Member of the Santa Rosa City Charter Review Committee
• Board, Past President, Committee for Restoring Santa Rosa Creek
• Past member, Citizen Involvement Task Force, City of Santa Rosa
• Past member, American Red Cross Board of Directors
• Past member, Polly Klaas Foundation Board of Directors
• Founding member and First Chair, Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District Advisory Committee
• Leadership Santa Rosa III
• Past member, Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and Executive Committee