Faculty Profile: Faye Williams

Faye A. Williams has served as the regional attorney for the Office of General Counsel/Memphis District Office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) since July 2006. In that role, she directs and manages the district’s litigation program for Tennessee, Arkansas, and seventeen counties in the Northern District of Mississippi. Before joining the EEOC as a trial attorney, Ms. Williams served as a judicial law clerk in the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division. As a trial attorney, she litigated cases arising under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 before juries in the Western, Middle, and Eastern Districts in Tennessee and the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas. She obtained one of the first jury verdicts in the United States under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 after the Act’s passage. Ms. Williams is a graduate of the University of Memphis, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. She is a member of the Tennessee Chapter of the National Employment Lawyers’ Association; member of National Bar Association, Ben F. Jones Chapter; former board member of the H. T. Lockard Foundation of Ben F. Jones Chapter; former vice president of Napier Looby Bar Association; and former member of Board of Director of Memphis Area Legal Services.