PERSON: Damien Williams
Employer
Southern District of New York
Position
U.S. Attorney
Biography
Andre Damian Williams Jr. (born 1980) is an American lawyer who is the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York. He is the first African-American U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Williams was born in Brooklyn, New York City and raised in the Atlanta metropolitan area, the son of Jamaican immigrants. His parents are divorced. He attended Woodward Academy for high school where he was student body president in his final year. He received a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Harvard University in 2002 and a Master of Philosophy in international relations from the Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 2003. Afterward, Williams worked for John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and South Carolina and as a “body man” for the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Terry McAuliffe. He then enrolled at Yale Law School. Following his first year of law school, Williams clerked for the office of United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He obtained a Juris Doctor from Yale in 2007,[4] where he was supported by The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans and was also an editor of the Yale Law Journal. One of his essays about improving voting rights after Hurricane Katrina was published in the Yale Law Journal in 2007.
Williams began his legal career as a law clerk to Judge Merrick Garland of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2007 to 2008. He then served as a law clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court from 2008 to 2009. From 2009 to 2012, he was a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. From 2012 to 2021, he served as an assistant United States attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. In the role, he served as a chief of the securities and commodities fraud task force from 2018 to 2021.
In 2018, Williams helped secure the conviction of Sheldon Silver, the former speaker of the New York State Assembly.
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Williams was born in Brooklyn, New York City and raised in the Atlanta metropolitan area, the son of Jamaican immigrants. His parents are divorced. He attended Woodward Academy for high school where he was student body president in his final year. He received a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Harvard University in 2002 and a Master of Philosophy in international relations from the Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 2003. Afterward, Williams worked for John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and South Carolina and as a “body man” for the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Terry McAuliffe. He then enrolled at Yale Law School. Following his first year of law school, Williams clerked for the office of United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He obtained a Juris Doctor from Yale in 2007,[4] where he was supported by The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans and was also an editor of the Yale Law Journal. One of his essays about improving voting rights after Hurricane Katrina was published in the Yale Law Journal in 2007.
Williams began his legal career as a law clerk to Judge Merrick Garland of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2007 to 2008. He then served as a law clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court from 2008 to 2009. From 2009 to 2012, he was a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. From 2012 to 2021, he served as an assistant United States attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. In the role, he served as a chief of the securities and commodities fraud task force from 2018 to 2021.
In 2018, Williams helped secure the conviction of Sheldon Silver, the former speaker of the New York State Assembly.
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