Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Professor Williams is well known for her work in the area of gender and law, especially concerning issues of work and family, and is the co-author of a casebook on gender and law.  She helped draft and testified before Congressional committees on the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 and the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.  Before joining the Law Center faculty in 1976, she was a law clerk for Justice Raymond Peters of the California Supreme Court, a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow, and a founder of Equal Rights Advocates, a public interest law firm in San Francisco.  Professor Williams served on the National Research Council Panel on Employer Policies and Working Families and the Blue Ribbon Advisory Committee to the Yale Bush Center Project on Infant Care Leaves.  She is a past-president of the Society of American Law Teachers and is a member of the American Law Institute.  She served as Associate Dean of the Law Center from 1989-93. Currently, Professor Williams is writing an authorized biography of Supreme Court Justice Ruth with co-author Mary Hartnett.  She received both her BA and her JD from the University of California, Berkeley.