Fred P. DuVal is an American businessman, civic leader, and author. DuVal is President of DuVal and Associates, a Senior Advisor to Dentons Law, an Advisor to Macquarie Infrastructure, a Director of Excelsior Mining, a Member of the Arizona Board of Regents and a Director of AGB, the Association of Governing Boards. He was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Arizona in the 2014 election, but was defeated by then-State Treasurer Doug Ducey. DuVal is married to Dr. Jennifer Hecker DuVal, Ph.D, an IBH Director at the Mayo Clinic, and has two sons William and Montgomery.
DuVal worked as a senior aide to Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt from 1980 to 1985. He managed Babbitt’s 1978 gubernatorial campaign and his 1988 presidential campaign. From 2002–2006, DuVal served on the Arizona Commerce and Economic Development Commission. In August 2006, DuVal was appointed to his first term on the Arizona Board of Regents by Democratic Governor Janet Napolitano and served as Chairman in 2011. He was appointed to his second term in 2019 by Republican Governor Doug Ducey. DuVal became one of the founders of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council in 1985 and served on the Democratic National Committee from 1989 to 1993 and from 2009 to 2011. He was Treasurer of the Democratic Governors Association from 2008 to 2010. In 1993, DuVal became Deputy Chief of Protocol at the U.S. Department of State and held the position until 1996. DuVal was Deputy National Campaign Manager of Clinton/Gore 96. In 1997 Bill Clinton appointed DuVal as the White House Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs where he played a role in the implementation of Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. DuVal helped negotiate a national tobacco settlement and guided White House policy development concerning American Indian gaming rights, tribal appropriations, and Section 638. In 1999, DuVal led negotiations between the White House, governors, and mayors about Clinton Executive Order 13132. DuVal was unsuccessful in his 2002 candidacy for Arizona's first congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. He is co-author of the book Calling Arizona Home, which was published in 2005. In 2010 he wrote and published "Irons in the Fire" a collection of published opinion pieces regarding contemporary Arizona issues. As a Regent, he was co-chair of the "Getting AHEAD" initiative with Maricopa Community Colleges Chancellor Dr. Rufus Glasper. In September 2010, DuVal was appointed to an advisory group for the National Governors Association's "Complete to Compete" educational initiative. On February 2013 DuVal announced his candidacy for Arizona governor in the 2014 election. In the election he lost to Republican Doug Ducey. As part of his work at Clean Energy, DuVal coordinated an alternative energy development program called the Pickens Plan. DuVal established the non-partisan the National Institute for Civil Discourse NICD at the University of Arizona after the near-fatal shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in January 2011 He has served on the boards of the University Medical Center, Children's Action Alliance, the Udall Center for Public Policy, Prescott College, Desert Botanical Garden, the Valley of the Sun YMCA and Valley Big Brothers/Big Sisters. DuVal is a monthly columnist for the Arizona Republic where he has penned dozens of opinion pieces on a wide variety of issues. In his second term on the Arizona Regents he led the creation of the Arizona Teachers Academy, has served as a Hunt-Kane Fellow, and has focused on higher education accountability, affordability and access.
