Bixby Land Co. CEO Bill Halford died Feb. 26 at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center following an illness. He was 58.
Halford, a fourth-generation Bixby and great-grandson of George Bixby, started at Bixby Land Co. as a board director in 1994. He was named Bixby Land Company’s eighth president and CEO in 2006.
Halford was an active leader in the Southern California real estate industry. He served as a catalyst for and chairman of the Real Estate Advisory Board and the Dean’s Advisory Board for the Center for Real Estate at the Paul Merage School of Business at University of California, Irvine.
Halford was a member of the Advisory Board for the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of the Good Scout Award by the Orange County Council of the Boy Scouts of America and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Center for Real Estate at the Paul Merage School of Business at University of California, Irvine.
Halford was a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and completed advanced studies in real estate at Harvard and MIT.
He is survived by his wife Cindy, daughter Ali , son Bixby, mother Suzy and sister Heidi.
