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.
Professional career
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.
Claire Williams (born 29 September 1987) is a Paralympianathlete from Wales competing mainly in category T12 throwing events. She has qualified as a member of the Great Britain team in three Paralympic Games, in 2004 at Athens, 2008 at Beijing and London 2012. At London she took the bronze medal in the discus.
Career history
Williams was born in Carmarthen, Wales in 1987. Williams, who has a visual impairment, became interested in sport while a school girl, taking up jujitsu. At the age of 12 she switched to athletics, becoming Welsh Schools Champion for hammer and discus.
In 2004, at the age of 17, Williams was selected for the Great Britain team for the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens. She threw a personal best of 35.26m in the T12 discus, coming in fifth. After Athens Williams continued her athletics training and also matriculated to Loughborough University, completing her degree in psychology in 2007. With her studies over, Williams started competing further afield, and recorded a personal best of 36.78m at Loughborough, which gave her another place in the Great Britain team in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. She again came fifth, throwing a distance of 35.01.
Claire Williams (born 21 July 1976) is the deputy team principal of the WilliamsFormula One racing team.
Early life
Claire Williams was born in 1976 in Windsor, Berkshire. She is the daughter of Sir Frank Williams and the late Lady Virginia Williams. Claire Williams graduated from Newcastle University in 1999 with a degree in Politics.
Career
After graduation, Claire Williams became a press officer for the Silverstone racing circuit. In 2002, she joined the Williams F1 team as a communications officer. In 2010 she became the head of communications for the team. In 2011, she was promoted to director of marketing and communications for Williams. When Frank Williams stepped down from the Williams board in March 2012, Claire became the Williams family representative on the board.
In March 2013, she was appointed deputy team principal of the Williams F1 racing team. In this role she retains responsibility for marketing, communications and the commercial aspects of the team's business.
The oldest of three artistically inclined children (brother William Smythe writes, while sister MaryClaire Smythe is an actress whose credits include the Anne Rice-inspired AMC series "Mayfair...
Consolation events were held in all events with Phil Horne and Chris Poter winning the men’s double plate, Claire Thomasson and Sue Warren taking the women’s doubles plate. Ann Williams and Joe Slowther claimed the mixed doubles plate competition.
Claire Thomasson just pipped Ann Williams to become top woman and Mike Williams edged out Will Stein to become top man ... The first semi-final was over quickly as Hennessy and Mike Williams quickly and decisively beat Ramsbottom and Stein 4-1.
In their file sent to prosecutors, lawyers William Bourdon, Amélie Lefebvre and Anne-Claire Lejeune refer to 'the fear of physical reprisals, going as far as a contract killing, preventing a filing of ...
Bowling Green Daily News
10 Feb 2024
Bowling Green Daily News
10 Feb 2024