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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Cecil Ash |
| Address |
Mesa, Arizona , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | http://cecilash.com/ |
| Born |
00, 1948
(76 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | RBH
Feb 22, 2013 06:34pm |
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Married - Latter Day Saints (Mormon) -
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| Info | About Cecil
More information than you probably want to know....
I was born in Mesa, Arizona in 1948 and grew up on a cattle ranch at the confluence of the Arivaipa Creek and the San Pedro River in southeastern Arizona, where I gained a lasting appreciation for those who work hard in the Arizona sun. Spending long summer hours hauling hay, irrigating, and working with cattle, I developed a desire to do something other than ranch hand work. So, I put my time into my studies and school work and graduated valedictorian of my high school, where I also served as student body president.
After attending a semester at BYU and a semester at U of A, I served a 27 month mission for my church in France, from 1968 to 1970. After my mission, I returned to college and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology, cum laude from Brigham Young University in 1973. I started law school at Arizona State University, and earned a Juris Doctor degree in December of 1976. I was engaged in private practice in Mesa for two years, before accepting a position as a legal advisor to the Director of the Arizona Department of Public Safety in November 1978.
In 1983 I returned to private practice in Mesa with an emphasis in real estate during the Arizona real estate boom of the late 70's and early 80's. I held an Arizona real estate broker’s license from 1980 to 1993. In 1985, as the real estate market began to decline I purchased the first Arizona franchise for Help-U-Sell Real Estate, and operated as its broker for the next four years. Also about this time in the mid-80's, I was part of a family partnership which purchased and developed ViewPoint RV & Golf Resort, a 334 acre, 2000 space RV Resort in East Mesa with 27 holes of golf. Following the sale of my Help-U-Sell franchise, I accepted a position with the Maricopa County Public Defender’s office from 1990 to 1995, where I engaged in criminal defense work, handling everything from DUI’s to 1st degree murder cases.
In 1995, following the death of a brother, I took over management of the family business of ViewPoint RV & Golf Resort, which continued until the resort was sold in 2004. With the sale of the family business, I began devoting my time to political issues. My wife, Linda, was a delegate and I was an alternate to the Republican National Convention in New York City in 2004.
We had been affiliated with United Families International (UFI) for several years. This is a charity which endeavors to preserve family values in society. In the fall of 2004, UFI requested Linda and I to represent the organization for six months at the United Nations to monitor language in UN documents and at UN conferences.
We rented an apartment in New York City near the UN, and traveled back and forth between Mesa and New York to attend conferences. After the six months period, we volunteered for another two years working with UN conference delegates urging them to adopt family-friendly language in their outcome documents.
By June 2007 we were back in Arizona full time and began working on the Mitt Romney campaign. I was on his local finance committee, and actively supported Governor Romney until he dropped out of the race in February 2008. This is when I decided to run for the Arizona Legislature.
This June, Linda and I have been married for 34 years. We have five children. With four boys, all of whom became Eagle Scouts, I have been involved in the Boy Scouts from 1981 until 2001. I served on the Parent Advisory Council of Franklin Junior High School, was a charter member of the Mesa Sunrise Rotary Club, and in 1994, I was a member of the Rotary Club’s International Exchange Group, which sent me and four other French speaking businessmen to the Burgundy province of France for six weeks. We lived with Rotarians there, spoke at their Rotary Club meetings, and generally acted as goodwill ambassadors for Rotary Club.
I have been a precinct committeeman for the Republican Party since approximately 1994.
I’d like to think that my family has always been my priority. None of the five children has ever given us much of a problem. One is in his third year of an emergency medicine residency at LA County hospital. My daughter and her husband live in Milwaukee where he is in finance merchandising in the corporate offices of Kohl's Department Store. My second son and his wife are in their third year of medical school at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. My third son, recently married, has his own real estate brokerage in Mesa in investment real estate. And my youngest is finishing his junior year at BYU studying finance and philosophy.
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