Lee William McNutt III is the son of L. William "Bill" McNutt, Jr.

Bill McNutt

Lee William McNutt II born in Corsicana, Texas; , used direct marketing and mail order to transform his family's Collin Street Bakery into a worldwide supplier of fruitcakes. Although he did not invent the fruitcake, Bill McNutt’s claim to culinary fame is having made the cake ubiquitous...

, and he was born in Nashville, Tennessee on April 18, 1955.

Personal life

Lee William (Bill) McNutt III, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William L. McNutt Jr. of Corsicana, and the grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pritchett of Nashville, Tennessee. and the late Mr. and Mrs. Lee McNutt of Corsicana. Bill McNutt III married his second wife Susana Christine Rabel, both of Dallas, on April 8, 2006 at the First Presbyterian Church

First Presbyterian Church

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 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The Rev. Stuart D. Dugan officiated and a yacht reception followed aboard the Sun Dream Yacht.

Susana is currently in-house legal counsel at Gold’s Gym corporate headquarters.

Following their wedding trip to Mar A Lago in Palm Beach

Palm Beach, Florida

The Town of Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The Intracoastal Waterway separates it from the neighboring cities of West Palm Beach and Lake Worth...

, Fla., and the Cloister in Sea Island

Sea Island, Georgia

Sea Island is an affluent resort island located in the barrier islands just off the Atlantic coast of southern Georgia in the United States. The resort complex is located in an unincorporated Glynn County....

, Ga., the couple resides in University Park

University Park, Texas

University Park is a city in Dallas County, Texas, United States, and a inner suburb of Dallas. The population was 23,324 at the 2000 census. The city is home to Southern Methodist University. Like its neighbor, Highland Park, it is a city partially surrounded by the municipality of Dallas...

.

Professional life

In 1980, Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

 Governor William (Bill) Clements

Bill Clements

William Perry "Bill" Clements, Jr. was the 42nd and 44th Governor of Texas, serving from 1979 to 1983 and 1987 to 1991. Clements was the first Republican to have served as governor of the U.S. state of Texas since Reconstruction...

 named Lee William McNutt III of Corsicana as the Navarro County Chairman for the Reagan-Bush Campaign. McNutt had received his bachelor's degree from Southern Methodist University, where he had been active in campus politics, and his master's degree from Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, the university is named for shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided Vanderbilt its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the...

 . Immediately after the 1980 election young McNutt wrote to give high praise to Governor Clements as the one man responsible for a rebirth of the Republican Party in Texas.<

Bill McNutt III is a graduate of Corsicana High School, where he was president of his class and co-captain of the football team. He earned a B.B.A., and later an M.L.A. Bill has an M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and served in the Reagan White House, the Presidential Transition Team, and worked for two years in the Bush 41 administration. Bill is a member of the board of Transition Capital Partners of Dallas, and International Direct Marketing Consultants Inc. Bill was also the founding president of the Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University is a private university in Dallas, Texas, United States. Founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, SMU operates campuses in Dallas, Plano, and Taos, New Mexico. SMU is owned by the South Central Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church...

's SMU Young Alumni Association, and is co-founder of Reef Equity Investments, LP of Dallas.

McNutt III was appointed to head the Texas Commission on the Arts, by Texas Gov. Rick Perry

Rick Perry

James Richard "Rick" Perry is the 47th and current Governor of Texas. A Republican, Perry was elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1998 and assumed the governorship in December 2000 when then-governor George W. Bush resigned to become President of the United States. Perry was elected to full...

in December 2009.

Arrest

He was arrested on Feb 15, 2010 at Southern Methodist University's campus for alleged trespassing.
Charges were dropped.