Bill Ballenger (born 28 March 1941) was the editor of Inside Michigan Politics a newsletter of Michigan Politics until January 2016.

[2] In March 2016, he founded The Ballenger Report political blog, followed by a weekly podcast.

He was the Robert P. & Marjorie Griffin Professor in American Government at Central Michigan University from 2003 until 2007.

[3] Ballenger has for many years been a panelist on the Michigan state politics public affairs television program Off the Record with Tim Skubick on WKAR-TV.

Ballenger was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education & Welfare under Gerald R. Ford.