William Joseph Bogaard (born 1938) is an American politician and the former mayor of Pasadena, California.

On January 18, 1938, Bogaard was born in Sioux City, Iowa.

[citation needed] He graduated from Loyola Marymount University[1] and was a captain in the U.S. Air Force.

He obtained his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan and became a lawyer.

Bogaard married Claire M. Whalen on January 28, 1961, in San Francisco, California.