About Bill

Houstonians re-elected Bill White as Mayor with a record 91% vote. His leadership brought the City together, as shown by the largest election margin in decades for a mayor of a major American city.

Mayor White works hard to increase jobs, reduce traffic congestion, improve the quality of life in neighborhoods, and make Houston's City Hall the most efficient in the nation.

Mayor White has improved productivity at City Hall with annual employee performance evaluations linked to performance, and reforms of the City's pension system.

White expanded library and swimming pool hours, brought primary care into three neighborhood clinics, tripled the City's investment in drainage projects to reduce flooding, and acquired land for a major new park.

White increased the priority of public safety in the budget. Crime rates dropped in his first two years, compared with the preceding two years.

Mayor White has worked to hold the line on property taxes with both tax rate cuts and increases in the senior exemption in each of his budgets.

Americans witnessed Mayor White's hands-on management style when he helped lead Houston's competent, compassionate dealing with Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

In his second term, Mayor White will accelerate work with the private sector and community organizations to revitalize our City's most neglected neighborhoods, enforce pollution laws, reducing the flooding impact of new developments, and raising high school graduation rates and encouraging more flexible working hours.

Before serving as mayor, White built one of the regions most successful businesses. Previously he served as Deputy Secretary of Energy of the United States, where he helped diversify national energy supplies saving taxpayers billions of dollars with management reforms. Earlier in his career, he helped build and manage one of the nation's most successful law firms.

For decades Mayor White and his wife Andrea have helped lead numerous charitable and civic organizations. The Whites have three teenagers and attend St. Luke's United Methodist Church.