Ann Claire Williams
| Ann Williams | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit | |
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Assumed office November 15, 1999 |
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| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Walter Cummings |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois | |
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In office April 4, 1985 – November 15, 1999 |
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| Appointed by | Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by | Seat established |
| Succeeded by | Joan Lefkow |
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August 16, 1949 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
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Wayne State University University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of Notre Dame |
Ann Claire Williams (born August 16, 1949) is a United States Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Williams was born in Detroit, Michigan. Before becoming a lawyer, she began her career as a music and third grade teacher in the inner city public schools of Detroit after graduating with a bachelor's degree from Wayne State University in Elementary Education and a master's degree in Guidance and Counseling from the University of Michigan while working full-time. She received her juris doctor from Notre Dame Law School. Williams is Catholic.
After law school, Williams’s worked as a law clerk with Judge Robert A. Sprecher of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She was one of the first two African-American law clerks to work at that court. She then worked as an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago for nine years, trying major felony cases and appearing before the Seventh Circuit. She was the first African-American woman to serve as supervisor in that office and was promoted to deputy chief of the criminal receiving and appellate division. Ultimately, she became the first Chief of the Organized Drug Enforcement Task Force, responsible for organizing federal investigation and prosecution activities for a five-state region.
In 1979, Williams began serving as an adjunct professor and lecturer at Northwestern University School of Law and at John Marshall Law School.
Williams was a U.S. District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois from 1985 until 1999. President Reagan nominated her on March 13, 1985, to a newly created seat on the court, and she was confirmed by the Senate on April 3, 1985. Her confirmation made her the first-ever African-American female judge appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
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