Atty. Kathy Williams Richardson
Kathy has been practicing law since 1992, and is the founder of Kathy S.
Williams P.L.L.C. Born to a military family in Okinawa, Japan, she
grew up as the
second
child in a household with three brothers.
She graduated from East Carolina University in Greenville, North
Carolina in 1987. While she was there, she gained a commission as a
Second Lieutenant in the Army Reserves.
She then went on to law school at Wake Forest School of Law in
Winston-Salem, NC. After a one-year interruption in her studies for active duty
service in Desert Shield and Desert Storm in 1990-1991, she graduated from Wake
Forest School of Law in 1992. She was licensed as an attorney in August
1992.
After a Position as Assistant Public Defender in Gastonia, she
moved to Durham in 1994, and served as an Assistant Public Defender here for two
years. She then left the Public Defender's office to open the Law Office of
Kathy Williams in April of 1996. Also in 1996, she resigned from the Army
Reserves after serving nine years on active duty and in the Reserves, and having
attained the rank of Captain.
In the summer of 1999, she
married and changed her name from Kathy S. Williams to
Kathy Williams Richardson.