William Patrick Dixon (December 12, 1943 – January 8, 2025) was an American lawyer and political strategist.
[1] He became counsel to Wisconsin Governor Patrick Lucey, and after a year, he moved to Washington, D.C., to serve on the Democratic Party staff of the United States House Committee on the Judiciary during the impeachment of Richard Nixon.
As the only House staffer allowed to listen to unedited versions of the Watergate tapes, Dixon prepared a series of memos that helped guide the committee's actions.
[7] In 1983, Wisconsin Governor Tony Earl appointed him as state banking commissioner, [8] a position he held till he became an administrator for Colorado Senator Gary Hart in 1985.
[10] He then returned to Wisconsin, joining the small civil rights law firm where Barack Obama would served as an associate from 1993 to 1996 and of counsel from 1996 to 2004.