Bill Rupp has dedicated his life to "Service Above Self" as an active Rotarian. He has been a member of the Maywood Rotary Club since 1978 where was elected and served as its President in 1986-87.
He went on to serve on the Rotary District Governors' staff and was elected and served as Rotary District 7490's Governor for 1994-95. He has served on the Gift of Life Foundation, the Walter D. Head Foundation, where he had served as its Chairperson, and served as Chairperson of the District 7490's Rotary Foundation Committee. He has served and is currently serving as the District's Parliamentarian and Resolutions Chairperson and has been named as the District's Youth Protection Officer. He was elected and served as the District's representative to the 2007, 2010 and 2013 Rotary International Council on Legislation. Bill was selected as the Rotarian of the Year by the Maywood Rotary Club in 1989. He is a multiple recipient of the District 7490's Walter D. Head Award and Rotary International's Paul Harris Award, is a benefactor of the Rotary Foundation's permanent fund and is the recipient of the Gift of Life Foundation's Humanitarian Award.
Bill received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from Rutgers University in 1970. After serving overseas in the United States Army during 1971 and 1972, Bill received his Juris Doctor Degree from Rutgers School of Law (Newark) in 1975. He currently practices law with the law firm of Winne Banta Hetherington Basralian & Kahn in Hackensack which serves as the attorneys for the Township of Teaneck. He currently serves of the attorney for both the Planning Board and Zoning Board of Adjustment of Park Ridge. He has also served as City Solicitor of Englewood, Township Attorney of Rochelle Park, and Borough Attorney of Maywood.
Bill is also active with his church. He is ordained as both an Elder and a Deacon in the Reformed Church in America. He has previously served as a Trustee of the Reformed Church Ministries to the Aging, on the Consistory of both the Teaneck Community Church and Second Reformed Church in Hackensack and served for 4 years as the moderator of the Reformed Church in America's Commission on Church Order. He currently teaches church school to high school students and is co-chair of the Food Pantry program at Second Reformed Church in Hackensack.
Bill is also active in his community. He is a member of both American Legion Post 142 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7408 in Maywood, served as a founding Trustee of the Maywood Senior Citizens Housing Corporation, where he now serves as its attorney, and as a former Trustee of the Teaneck Senior Citizens Housing Association. .