A builder and visionary at the core: turning hospitality leadership, revenue strategy, a legal path forward, and open-records and civic-technology work into systems and ventures people can actually use.
Who William Is
William Horschak is a hospitality executive, revenue strategist, legal-pathway student, and civic-tech builder. His career has centered on high-pressure hospitality environments, including Yellowstone and Yosemite National Park markets, nightly-capacity hotels, diverse teams, demanding guest operations, and analytical revenue strategies built around RevPAR, rate discipline, inventory control, and profit maximization: measuring the signals that matter and letting the numbers, not hunches, decide.
He is now pursuing a future in the legal realm with sights on law school while continuing to develop online ventures focused on open records, open governance, civic transparency, and data-driven public information systems.
William Horschak
Hospitality Revenue Strategy • Legal Pathway • Open Records • Local Journalism • Civic Technology
President’s List of High Distinction · Spring 2026 & Fall 2025
Recognition
William's legal coursework has earned consecutive President's List of High Distinction recognition at Western Technical College — the institution's top academic honor, earned in the Legal Studies/Paralegal program.
Western Technical College — Legal Studies/Paralegal program. High Distinction recognition for the Spring 2026 term.
Verified 2026-05-28
Western Technical College — Legal Studies/Paralegal program. High Distinction recognition for the Fall 2025 term.
Verified 2026-01-20
William J. Horschak V — Merit verified achievements (opens in a new tab)
Three Pillars
One executive’s discipline, applied across three connected bodies of work.
Leadership of branded, nightly-capacity properties in Yellowstone and Yosemite destination markets: large seasonal teams, guest-service recovery, PMS-based systems modernization, and revenue decisions made under real operating pressure.
Currently studying for a future in the legal realm, with sights on law school. The documentation, deadline, and standards habits that ran hotels now power structured legal research and writing.
Requester-side work in lawful records access (custodian identification, precise drafting, deadline tracking, organizing productions) and civic-tech ventures that turn public information into usable civic knowledge.
The Through-Line
William’s legal and civic-transparency work is not a departure from hospitality; it is an extension of the same discipline.
Hospitality operations taught him to document, track, forecast, communicate, manage pressure, protect standards, and solve problems in real time. Revenue management taught him to read signals, identify patterns, and make decisions based on evidence rather than assumption. Those same skills now inform his legal education, public-records research, and open-governance work.
How William Works
The habits below were forged in hotels that had to perform every night. They now shape his legal study, records research, and product work.
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Rate decisions, records requests, and legal research all start the same way: gather as much relevant data as the problem allows, read the signals honestly, and let the evidence, not instinct, set the direction.
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If it matters, it gets written down, dated, and filed where it can be found again. Hotel operations, records organization, and legal study all reward the same habit.
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One-off fixes decay. William builds repeatable systems (checklists, workflows, operating views) so good outcomes survive busy nights and seasonal turnover.
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Nightly-capacity operations leave no room for panic. Pressure is information: triage, communicate, resolve, then improve the process so the next night runs cleaner.
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Profit and accountability both come from detail. Small, consistent corrections (a rate fence, a precise request, a clean citation) add up to outcomes.
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Brand standards, citation discipline, records organization: different arenas, one expectation. The standard holds whether or not anyone is watching.
Biography
Where I’m from, and how I got here.
I was born in San Antonio, Texas, and grew up in two places that pulled at me differently: my early years in the Coulee Region of western Wisconsin, and my teenage and coming-of-age years back in San Antonio.
My hospitality career started in 2014, when I became general manager of a Baymont Inn. In 2017 I took over a Best Western in West Yellowstone, Montana, and grew into a regional manager and revenue manager across multiple properties. In 2019 I ran the Best Western at Yosemite as a taskforce general manager and opened a brand-new Best Western Premier in Half Moon Bay, California. In 2021 I became general manager of a large full-service conference and restaurant hotel and stepped up to corporate revenue manager for the company.
More recently I led regional operations for a hospitality group, overseeing a portfolio of boutique hotels and rental properties. Today my focus has shifted to the legal realm: I’m studying for a future in law with sights on law school, working in public records and legal research, and building civic-technology around open government and transparency. I also founded and publish the Trempealeau Pioneer, an independent monthly covering county government, the courts and public records in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, where I write the courts beat myself. And I build open-source Claude skills for Wisconsin legal work.
Beyond the Work
What I believe, where I’m from, and where you’ll find me on a good day.
Politics is a genuine passion of mine, not a hobby I picked up to sound interesting. On the questions that shape daily life I’m firmly libertarian (civil liberties, free speech, privacy, gun rights, local autonomy, and the freedom to start and run a small business), with a standing distrust of bureaucratic overreach. My default is simple: the burden falls on government to justify intruding on a person’s liberty, not on the person to justify keeping it.
And yet I hold an older, FDR-era belief with equal force. When the country faces a severe national crisis (economic collapse, mass unemployment, the kind of emergency that grinds ordinary families down), I believe the federal government can and should act aggressively: stabilize the economy, protect workers, rebuild infrastructure, and keep people out of poverty. Liberty is the everyday rule; decisive collective action is what genuine, nation-scale emergencies demand. The two instincts argue constantly, and I think that argument is the point.
I love this country plainly, and I see the work ahead as restoration rather than blame: lifting it back to its full stature and helping every American, whatever they believe, feel there is a place for them in it.
The United States is the greatest country on the planet, and restoring its prestige is a job that belongs to all of us. Every American, regardless of ideology, deserves to feel great about being one.
I’m a San Antonio native, which means two loyalties were settled before I had a say in either: the Spurs and the Texas Longhorns. I’ve stayed faithful to both. Ask for my favorite moment in sports and I don’t hesitate: January 4, 2006, the Rose Bowl, the national title on the line. Fourth-and-five. Vince Young takes the snap, finds the corner, and the whole season narrows to a single sprint toward the pylon, gliding untouched into the end zone before USC can lay a hand on him. Texas over the Trojans. I’ve watched it more times than I’ll admit, and it still gets me in the chest.
I golf, I hike, I travel for the chance to stand somewhere I’ve never stood. Most of all I want to be outdoors with nothing to prove: open ground, the long quiet of a trail, the only traffic whatever wildlife happens by. I have a soft spot for animals and tend to make friends with whatever wanders into view. That’s where the noise falls away and the good ideas show up uninvited.
A few moments
William is available for professional inquiries related to hospitality revenue strategy, open-records research, civic-transparency tools, web ventures, and business-development concepts.