Thursday, June 11, 2026

WECA is excited to welcome Bill Garr back to WECA, this time as a full-time Apprenticeship instructor! Bill previously served WECA as a full-time GetWired Electrician Trainee/Continuing Education Lead Instructor before taking a hiatus to work in various aspects of the electrical industry. Even during his hiatus, though, Bill wasn’t far from WECA, because he served as a part-time GetWired instructor online.

During his hiatus, Bill worked as a project manager for various companies. Bill worked on prestigious and specialized projects for companies such as Calpine (which owns and operates The Geysers, the world’s largest geothermal energy complex, located in the Mayacamas Mountains in Lake and Sonoma Counties, CA); Lockheed Martin; PG&E (at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in Avila Beach, CA), and a company that specializes in hospital electrical work.

However, this hiatus led Bill to discover that he truly loved teaching. To that end, Bill sold his childhood home in Santa Rosa and moved to Sacramento to come back to WECA full-time to continue pursuing his passion for teaching.

Prior to WECA, Bill was inspired to become an electrician by his father and grandfather, who were electricians. He attended community college for his AA and received an Electrician Trainee Program Certificate with WECA in pursuit of that goal—and the rest is history.

Now that Bill is back at WECA, he said “My favorite thing about my current role is that I get to have an in-person experience with the students, coupled with while working here for WECA, I get my own classroom to provide a safe learning experience for the students.”

Moving forward, Bill said “I hope to accomplish a lasting and great effect on the new generation of people becoming electricians. I want to inspire, provide wonder and enthusiasm for the students, so they can become the best at what they do.”

Bill attributed his success at WECA and in his career to key people in his life, such as his parents, friends, and fellow WECA instructor LaKeal Morris and former WECA Apprenticeship instructor and current GetWired part-time instructor Zach Wallace.

“My mother and my father, for encouraging me and supporting me throughout my life, and a couple of instructors here at WECA, LaKeal and Zach, who also encouraged me to follow up on education and instruction, and my close friends who also supported me and believed in my passion to become an instructor,” said Bill.

Bill’s other passions besides teaching and inspiring the next generation of electricians include fly fishing, kayaking, golfing, archery, and gaming on his PC.

Thank you for being part of the WECA family, Bill, and coming full circle (again!) from WECA Electrician Trainee to GetWired Lead Instructor and part-time instructor to Apprenticeship instructor! We are excited to have you back and for you to continue inspiring the next generation of electricians!