Yvonne M. Williams

Williams earned her Bachelor of Arts from University of California at Berkeley in 1994, and her Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law in 1997.^[4]

After graduating, she worked as a staff attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. In October 1999 she joined the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia as a trial attorney and in 2005, she went into private practice.^[3][5]

President Barack Obama nominated Williams on February 3, 2011, to a 15-year term as an associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to the seat vacated by Brook Hedge.^[4] On June 15, 2011, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing on her nomination.^[6] On June 29, 2011, the Committee reported her nomination favorably to the Senate floor. On August 2, 2011, the full Senate confirmed her nomination by voice vote.^[7] She was sworn in on December 16, 2011.^[8]