Bill Lacy speaking about the Thompson campaign

Bill Lacy has served as the Director of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics since 2004 and is now back at the Institute after taking a short break to work as the Presidential Campaign Manager of Former Senator Fred Thompson.

Before coming to the Dole Institute, Lacy had a twenty year career in Washington, D.C. as a campaign strategist. He served as White House Political Director and Deputy Assistant to President Reagan. He also served in senior roles in Bob Dole's 1988 and 1996 presidential campaign and as a consultant to his 1992 Senate race.

Lacy was involved in every GOP presidential campaign from 1980-1996. Bill served as Political Director of the Republican Party in 1984, in charge of the Reagan re-elect voter registration and turnout programs. He ran California for George Bush in 1988, the last successful Republican presidential campaign there. Lacy consulted on a number of other successful campaigns, including former Senator Fred Thompson's record win in Tennessee in 1994 and re-election in 1996.

Lacy has also served as Vice-chairman and CEO of the Sophie Mae Candy Company and saw first hand how legislation affects business. Lacy served on the Advisory Board of the 1988 Presidential Oral History project of the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. In 1989, he was selected to travel to Japan to study their political system and in 1990 traveled to Czechoslovakia to advise political parties on their first democratic elections in 50 years. Lacy was appointed a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard in 1991.

Lacy has done numerous interviews and appeared on the three major television networks and done cable shows like Crossfire and Tim Russert. He was selected as a Campaigns & Elections Magazine "mover and shaker" and was featured in the late John Kennedy Jr.'s inaugural issue of George magazine.

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