William "Bill" Lex

Bill Lex was appointed to the Library Board of Trustees in 2015.  He is a founding member of the Daly City Public Library Associates and author of the 2015 Library Board of Trustees Annual Report.  Bill also volunteers with the California State Parks Foundation and at the SFO Aviation Museum & Library.  He moved to Daly City with his family in 1961.  While he left for college in 1965, Daly City has always been his “home base.”  He served in the US Air Force for 4 years attaining the rank of Captain.  His educational credentials include a B.A. (Univ. of California-Santa Barbara), M.S. (Oregon State Univ.), and a Ph.D. (Univ. of Texas at Austin).  Professionally, Bill was a flight instructor and commercial pilot and a higher education administrator in Alaska, Pennsylvania, California, Illinois, and the United Arab Emirates.  He retired after serving 7 years as the Director of Fujairah Women’s College and as the founding Director for a separate college for men.  In collaboration with the American Embassy in Abu Dhabi, he established an “American Corner” in the women’s college library.  He returned to Daly City in 2007 with his wife, Diane, who is a retired JESD elementary school teacher.  Bill is a frequent patron of the Westlake branch library, enjoys Clive Cussler, John Grisham, and Vince Flynn/Kyle Mills novels, and is currently reading "Rogue Heroes - The History of the SAS" by Ben Macintyre.