William Jose Sanchez (born 1961) is an American lawyer who served as the special counsel for the Office of Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice from 2004 to 2007.

[2] After graduating from Georgetown University, Sanchez worked as an immigration attorney in Florida, working primarily with migrant workers and refugees from Haiti and Cuba, and regularly taking cases to federal courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals.

Sanchez was also an attorney for the Haitian Refugee Center, and taught international law at Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines.

In the 2016 United States Presidential election, Sanchez was among a number of prominent Bush administration officials who endorsed Hillary Clinton.

[8] Sanchez was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2022 United States Senate election in Florida, coming in third place with 5.6% of the vote.