William H. Eargle Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary

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William H. Eargle, Jr. is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Operations in the Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD). In this capacity, he oversees the Office of Executive Services (OES) and the Office of Technical Assistance and Management (OTAM). The OES directs CPD's forty-three field offices. The OTAM includes budget, personnel, general administrative management, systems and technical assistance. In addition, Mr. Eargle simultaneously serves as CPD's Comptroller. In this role he takes the lead in resolving audit findings and recommendations, issues general financial management policy for CPD, and helps to ensure that proper internal controls are in place to protect Federal funding. Prior to coming to CPD, Mr. Eargle was HUD's Deputy Chief Financial Officer for Accounting.

Mr. Eargle began his Federal career in 1969 with the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) as an auditor for the Federal Highway Administration. In 1971, he transferred to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA's) regional office in Atlanta, Georgia, where he served as the Assistant Regional Financial Manager. His primary role in that capacity was to help ensure that grantee financial and programmatic operations were in compliance with Federal standards. In 1974, he accepted the position of Regional Financial Manager for NHTSA's office in Baltimore, Maryland. Administrative management of the regional office and oversight of the state grantees were his main charge.

In 1979, Mr. Eargle began working in Washington, D.C. with the Federal Aviation Administration. From there, he moved back to NHTSA to work in the headquarters Office of Financial Management. There, he directed accounting operations, wrote national grant financial management policy, and oversaw systems development. In 1983 Mr. Eargle was selected to be the Accounting Officer for the Urban Mass Transportation Administration at DOT (now the Federal Transit Administration). In 1990, he accepted a position at HUD.

Mr. Eargle is a native of Charleston, South Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Newberry College in South Carolina and a Masters in Business Administration from Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a Certified Public Accountant and earned a certificate degree in the field of electronic data processing.