Dr. William Yarde has been a resident of Fayetteville, Georgia since 1997, and the State of Georgia since 1979.

He obtained a BSc in Biology from Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, in 1978 and his Medical Degree from the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA in 1985. He completed his Neurosurgical Residency at The University of Kansas in 1997. After retiring from the United States Navy in 2017, he obtained a Master of Health Administration (M.H.A.) from Penn State in 2018. He has been an educator/mentor for most of his professional life.  

Dr. Yarde is a retired United States Navy Neurosurgeon with twenty-five years of military service. He served in both the United States Army and the United States Navy. He is also an Afghanistan War Veteran, serving in Kandahar as a trauma neurosurgeon during the 2013-2014 period.  

During his active duty years, he held positions in various leadership roles which include Neurosurgery Department Head, Director of Surgical Services, and Board of Trustees member of the NATO Role 3 hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

He has also served on various committees and boards in both civilian and active duty realms. These include trauma committees/boards, infectious, quality control, peer review, and Court Martial boards. He has received several awards, citations, and medals during his military tenure.

Although he has lived in various parts of the country, and the world, Fayetteville was, and always will be, home. Since retiring, his intentions are to dedicate his time to serving the community of Fayette County, and the State of Georgia in the capacity of a public servant, and board member of nonprofit organizations.

Should he be given the opportunity to serve the county as a Board of Education member, his decisions will always be driven by the first and foremost question, “What’s in the best interest of the Fayette County community, students, teachers, parents, and welfare of the school system?”