Bill J. Crouch was appointed Cabinet Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) in January 2017 by Governor Jim Justice.

Prior to being named Secretary of DHHR, Bill had retired from the health care consulting company that bears his name, Bill J. Crouch and Associates, Inc. Bill served as President of that company for thirty years, where he provided health care management and consulting services to hospitals, long term care facilities, ambulatory care clinics, physicians, and others. During part of that time, he was also a partner in a long term care company that owned nursing facilities and assisted living communities in West Virginia.

Public service, however, is not new to Bill. He started his government service in 1978, when he joined the West Virginia Department of Health, now the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. He quickly moved his way up in the Department from the Division of Maternal and Child Health to the Office of Community Health Services, where he became the Assistant Director.

In 1983, the West Virginia Legislature passed a bill creating the West Virginia Health Care Authority with the intent of regulating acute care hospital's rates, operating the Certificate of Need program for the state and writing the State Health Plan for West Virginia. Shortly after passage of that legislation, Bill was asked to be the first Executive Director of that agency where he stayed through 1986.

Bill is a past associate member of the West Virginia Hospital Association, past member of the board of directors of the West Virginia Health Care Association, and past member of the board of directors of the West Virginia Assisted Living Association/Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA).

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Mars Hill College and a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Tennessee.

He and his wife, Debbie, are the parents of two daughters and have two grandsons.