Darrin Lavell Williams | |
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Member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from the 36th district |
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In office 2009–2015 |
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Succeeded by | Charles Blake |
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Political party | Democratic |
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Hendrix College (B.A.) Vanderbilt University (J.D.) Georgetown University (L.L.M) |
Occupation | Attorney |
Darrin L. Williams is an American lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of Arkansas. A member of the Democratic Party, Williams is a former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from District 36. He was term-limited and ineligible to run for re-election in 2014.
Williams is from Little Rock, Arkansas. When Williams was a teenager, Bill Clinton, then the Governor of Arkansas, appointed him to a school consolidation board. He attended Little Rock Central High School, where he was named student body president in 1986. He then received his bachelor's degree from Hendrix College, his master of law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, and his juris doctor from Vanderbilt University School of Law. During this time, he worked as an intern for Bill McCuen, the Secretary of State of Arkansas, and David Pryor, a member of the United States Senate. Williams worked as a deputy director of the Democratic National Committee during the Clinton presidency.