Yvonne M. Williams

Yvonne Michelle Williams (born June 13, 1972) is an associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

[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.