Arizona Registrar of Contractors

Message from the Director William A. Mundell, was appointed by Governor Jan Brewer on February 17th 2009 as Director of the Arizona Registrar of Contractors. Director Mundell brings to this position a wealth of public and private sector experience that will further enhance the agency's ability to effectively regulate this vitally important industry.

Director Mundell was born at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska. After living at numerous air force bases throughout the United States, he came to Arizona from Illinois in 1968 with his parents. He graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Art's degree in political science in 1974. He earned a Juris Doctor degree from St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas in 1977.

Director Mundell has been an attorney in Arizona since 1978. In 1980 he became the Presiding Judge of the Chandler Municipal Court. As the Presiding Judge he helped write the Municipal Court Handbook for jury trials and made recommendations on how to strengthen Arizona's domestic violence laws. In 1986 he resigned as Presiding Judge to run for the Arizona House of Representatives.

Director Mundell was first elected in 1986 and served as a member of the Arizona House of Representatives from 1987 to 1993. As a legislator he was the prime sponsor of legislation strengthening Arizona's domestic violence and crimes against children laws. As Chairman of the House Environment Committee, he sponsored numerous pieces of legislation protecting Arizona's environment, including the state's first recycling law. Additional committee assignments included Counties & Municipalities, Natural Resources & Agriculture and Judiciary. During his tenure at the legislature, Mundell was voted "One of Arizona's Top 10 Legislators."

His past civic and community service memberships include Vice President of public policy for the Chandler Chamber of Commerce; Vice President of Arizona Heritage Alliance; President of the Chandler Fraternal Order of Police Associates; Chairman of the Chandler United Way; a member of the East Valley Partnership; a member of the board of directors of the Chandler Regional Hospital; a member of the Lions Club and the Salvation Army Advisory Board.

Governor Jane Hull appointed Mundell to the Arizona Corporation Commission on June 21, 1999, after a vacancy occurred. In the 2000 general election, he was elected to serve the remaining four years of the term. He became Chairman of the Commission in January 2001 and served in that capacity until January 2003. Mundell was re-elected in 2004 and his term ran through the end of 2008. During his term as Chairman Arizona became the first state to require its utilities to generate electricity from renewable energy while at the same time protecting businesses and residential consumers from unnecessary rate increases.

While a Commissioner, Mundell served on the Telecommunications and Consumer Affairs Committees of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.

Director Mundell is married to Barbara R. Mundell, and has two beautiful and wonderful children, Meghan and Samantha.

William A. Albright was hired as Chief of the Legal Department, Arizona Registrar of Contractors on September 28, 1998 and served in that position until September 1, 2004. On that date Mr. Albright assumed duties as Assistant Director for the agency. In this role he has responsibility for the supervision and operation of the Licensing, Investigations and Inspections departments as well as the agency's three regional offices and all field offices statewide.

Mr. Albright graduated from Arizona State University in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. He also received his Juris Doctorate from Arizona State University in 1971 and became a member of the State Bar of Arizona in that same year.

He has previously served as a Deputy Public Defender in Yuma County, Arizona and as an Assistant Attorney General in Phoenix in the Licensing and Enforcement Section. Prior to that he served as a judge advocate in the United States Air Force retiring after twenty years of service in 1990. While in the Air Force he held positions at both the base and headquarters levels.

Mr. Albright is married, has five children and currently resides in Chandler, Arizona.

Wilma Himel was appointed to the position of Assistant Director over Administration, December 2005. Wilma begin working for the Arizona Registrar of Contractors (ROC) in 1995 and has had oversight over; Agency Business and Finance Operations, Call Center Operations, Information Technology, Registrar of Contractors Recovery Fund and continues to direct the services of; Human Resources, Mail Room Operations, Purchasing, Accounting, Payroll, Budget, Audits, Revenue Operations, Leases, and other Administrative and Finance related operations.

Wilma holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business/Accounting and is a Certified Public Manager and a former treasurer of the Hopi Tribe. She has over 30-years of experience in local, tribal, federal and state governments and is a member of the Arizona Affirmative Action Association, the Government Finance Officer’s Association, a member of the Arizona Society of Certified Public Managers, former board member of the Economic Development Board and sits on the Agency Incentive Pay Steering Committee, Transportation Committee, ROC Executive Team and is the former Agency Ombudsman and Tribal Liaison for the ROC.

Wilma is married and has three grown children.

Tyler Palmer joined the ROC in 2007 as the Audit & Planning Manager. Since that time, his role has expanded to include Legislative Liaison, Ombudsman and Public Information Officer. In these roles Tyler is responsible for the overall development and monitoring of the ROC’s budget; assessing and communicating the impacts of proposed legislation to elected officials, staff, and stakeholders; investigating and responding to constituent complaints; and providing information to the public and the media.

Prior to joining the ROC, Tyler spent two years with the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. Tyler graduated from BYU (Provo) with an undergraduate degree in Business and a Masters degree in Public Administration.

Tyler is happily married and has two beautiful young girls and one lively son.

Gene came to the ROC in June of 2006 after 5 1/2 years with Arizona's Government Information Technology Agency (GITA).

While at GITA Gene served as the Digital Government Services Manager and as the State Web Portal Manager for the Arizona @ Your Service Web Portal. As the Portal Manager, Gene was directly responsible for the implementation of Arizona's first web portal, and the many infrastructure services necessary to support Arizona's e-government initiatives.

Gene previously worked for the state of Washington in a similar capacity. During his 14 years of service there he was involved in the development of several key electronic government initiatives. These included the Washington Information Network (WIN) Kiosk project; Access Washington, the state's award winning Internet service; Inside Washington the state's Intranet service; the Digital Government Applications Academy, and various other Information Technology (IT) initiatives.

Gene has over 30 years of Information Technology and project management experience in both the private and public sectors, with the majority of that time focusing solely on government technology solutions. This is in conjunction with his earlier studies in Computer Science at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Gene is committed to the process of making the ROC work more effectively and efficiently through the use of "smart" technologies and business practices - thereby providing the most benefit and convenience to the public that it serves.

In addition to his oversight of the Technology Services Division, Gene was recently appointed to oversee the Investigations, Licensing and Inspections departments of the ROC. Gene’s technology and business management skills will be essential in streamlining processes and improving overall efficiency of the regulatory and enforcement areas of the ROC.

Gene is married, has two sons and lives in Glendale Arizona.

Brenda Marshall began her employment at the Registrar of Contractors in March of 2009 to serve as Executive Assistant to Director William Mundell. Prior to coming to the ROC, she was employed at the Arizona Corporation Commission. During her 14-year tenure, she worked 9½ years for Commissioner Mundell as his Executive Assistant.

Brenda has thirty years of experience in state government, beginning at the Arizona State Senate. She maintains good, working relationships with federal, state and county officials and staff members. She gained experience as assistant when she served as a paralegal at a Phoenix law firm.

Brenda was born in Clovis, New Mexico and continued her education at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, NM. She has been a resident of Phoenix since 1971. Brenda currently serves on the Central Square Homeowners' Association board as a director. Past community service memberships include volunteering as president and vice president of a service organization, Beta Sigma Phi, with responsibilities consisting of fundraising efforts to many charitable organizations, including Crisis Nursery and Sunshine Acres.

Brenda has a son and daughter and is blessed with ten grandchildren.