William J. Duffy

William J. Duffy was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, grew up in Royal Oak, Michigan, attended Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and worked for the U.S. Government for thirty-three years. He was assigned overseas as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer for nine years in the 1970s and 1980s, serving in the U.S. Embassies in Seoul, Korea and Accra, Ghana, and in the U.S. Consulate in Fukuoka, Japan. During Japanese language training in 1983, he met his husband of thirty-three years, Ken. After his 1985 return from Japan, Duffy worked at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. In order to stay with Ken, he left the Foreign Service and accepted a Civil Service position at the State Department. He retired in 2008. He and Ken live in Tucson, Arizona.