Bill McHugh lives in Leland with his wife Danielle. He is an attorney and works in the field of Clinical Research, negotiating contracts with clinical trial sites. Bill graduated from Florida Atlantic University in 2007 with a BA in Political Science and Social Science. He earned his Juris Doctor degree in Florida from St. Thomas University School of Law in 2012.

Bill is an Eagle Scout with a history of service to his community. Bill’s service includes working with “Gateway Community Outreach” in Florida in 2015 where he assisted food insecure families. He also volunteered with local catering companies and food trucks after Florence to help feed individuals in need as well as members of the Cajun Navy. In 2018 he served on the NHRMC “Storm Team” during Hurricane Florence where he was a Food and Nutrition Coordinator, providing meals to the hospital staff and families during the lockdown. The NHRMC Food and Nutrition Department served over 100,000 meals during a six-day period. Most recently, he worked on COVID-19 clinical trials during the Coronavirus pandemic. Bill negotiated and executed contracts to get clinical trial sites activated so they could start enrolling patients quickly.

Bill is no newcomer to politics. He has been involved at the local, state, and federal level since he was in junior high protesting in DC to stop a bill that would have lowered the standards of dolphin-safe tuna. Since then, Bill has worked on several campaigns and pushed to increase voter registration, voter turnout, and access to absentee ballots. Those efforts include running a coordinated phone campaign in 2020 and hitting the streets to sign up voters in 2016. In 2015 he appeared before the Broward County Commission to push them to strike a deal with Uber regarding unpaid fees so Uber could resume service in one of Florida’s largest counties.