Edith L. Williams (August 17, 1887 – June 9, 1987) was a United States Virgin Islands educator, women's rights activist, and suffragist.

Williams was the first woman who attempted to vote in the Virgin Islands and when she was denied the right to register, she petitioned the court along with Eulalie Stevens and Anna M. Vessup to review their qualifications.

[2] During her youth, she played cricket for the Harlem Virgin Islands Girls team and traveled several times to compete in matches in the United States.

[4] In that year, the Danish West Indies was sold to the United States and the Colonial Law of 1906 passed by Denmark for governance in the islands was retained for the unincorporated territory.

[10][4] Teaching students and their parents how to garden, she created a vegetable patch on the school grounds, allowing them to grow their own food, prepare it for lunches, and sell the excess produce.

The Association filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Virgin Islands in November 1935 and Levitt ruled that Danish Colonial Law was unconstitutional, as it contravened the provisions of the Nineteenth Amendment, and had never been intended to restrict the vote to men.

[17] The Board of Elections rejected all of the women registrants, causing Hill to arrange for the pro bono services of lawyer, Robert Claiborne.

[17] Choosing Williams, Eulalie Stevens, and Anna M. Vessup as petitioners, the Teachers' Association sought to obtain a Writ Of Mandamus, a type of court order, compelling the election officers to allow the women's registrations.

Mounted on a pillar, a bust of her upper torso depicts her holding a book in her left hand and a coal pot in the right.