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About SCCGOV

As County Counsel, Williams oversees all aspects of the Office of the County Counsel and serves as the chief legal advisor to the Board of Supervisors, the County Executive, the Civil Grand Jury, County elected officials and department heads. He oversees all litigation brought by the County and the defense of all litigation filed against the County. The Santa Clara County Counsel’s Office has 158 employees, including 70 attorneys, and administrative and support staff. Williams began his career with the County of Santa Clara in 2010 as a Social Justice & Impact Litigation Fellow in the Office of the County Counsel. His accomplishments while serving as Fellow landed him a role as Deputy County Counsel where, among other duties, he advised the County’s Finance Agency and its Auditor-Controller, Treasurer, and Tax Collector functions. He also helped lead the County’s successful litigation strategy on redevelopment dissolution. He delivered the oral argument before the California Supreme Court on behalf of the County as an Intervener in California Redevelopment Association v. Matosantos, where the County’s successful argument resulted in the dissolution of the state’s 400+ redevelopment agencies on February 1, 2012. Williams, 32, graduated from Stanford Law School in June 2010. In 2006, he graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University, where he received the Pyne Prize, Princeton’s highest undergraduate distinction. He is a Harry S. Truman Scholar and Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. In spring 2012, Williams was named a “Lawyer on the Fast Track” by The Recorder, recognizing California attorneys in their first 10 years of practice “whose early accomplishments indicate they will be tomorrow’s top lawyers and leaders.