Kelly Williams

Corporate General Counsel
Ms. Williams serves as internal general counsel, responsible for board relations, legal, tax and ethics compliance and oversight of our pro bono law firms. She also advises various programs at the Center on corporate, non-profit, tax, disclosure and ethics law matters and writes for our blog ReformNY. This will be the fourth year Ms. Williams has organized the Brennan Center Jorde Symposium.
Prior to working at the Center, she was an associate in corporate finance at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, counsel at UBS Securities, Inc., and general counsel and director of programs at a national community development financial institution.
She is a graduate of Tufts University and New York University School of Law. Ms. Williams is a member of the board of directors of SCO Family of Services, New York State’s largest human services organization, where she is chair of the ethics committee and also serves on the development, finance and audit committees.
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Blog Posts
- New York State Ethics Oversight: Timely Implementation (12/09/11)
- 2012: Year of the Albany Corruption Trials? (11/16/11)
- The Trial of Assemblyman William Boyland, Jr. (11/09/11)
- Wood: Decision-Making on a Multi-Member Court (11/04/11)
- The Debt Ceiling and Ungovernable America (08/05/11)
- Waiting for the Promised Ethics Bill (01/07/11)
- Fixing New York State’s Ethics Laws (12/01/10)
- Posner: The Rise and Fall of Judicial Restraint (10/11/10)
- Senator Tom Harkin Urges End to “Tyranny of the Minority” (06/17/10)
- Ungovernable America? The Jorde Symposium (04/22/10)
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- Ethics Reform for New York State – Let’s Keep At It (01/21/10)
- Ethics Reform in NY: New Package, New Contents? (01/05/10)
- “...a beacon of light in a shadowed world…” (11/24/09)
- Same-Sex Marriage | Jorde Symposium (04/23/09)
- Lobbying the Bailout (10/23/08)
- Minus FEC Quorum, Lobbyists Still Bundled Up (06/16/08)
