2024 Honorary Chairman
Bill CUnningham
Bill Cunningham
“The Great American”
Bill Cunningham is a nationally-recognized broadcaster, attorney and a business entrepreneur.
His daily national television program, The Bill Cunningham Show (2011), which airs in cities across the U.S., was launched in September, 2011.
For more than 40 years, he has been a prominent radio host, honored twice with a Marconi Award as "America's Big Market Radio Personality of the Year" on 700 WLW in Cincinnati and, in recent years, added a national weekend program, on Premiere Radio Networks, which is heard in more than 200 markets across the U.S.
Bill's legal experience includes representing defendants from all walks of life in civil and criminal cases. Earlier in his career, he served as an Assistant Attorney General for the state of Ohio.
He has also been active in starting various businesses, including multiple restaurants.
Bill and his wife, the Hon. Penelope H. Cunningham of the Ohio Court of Appeals, both grew up in the Cincinnati area, where Bill earned induction into the local basketball hall of fame and was named one of the top 100 high school basketball players of all time. They have one son and two grandchildren.
He is a graduate of Xavier University in Cincinnati and the University of Toledo College of Law.