For Release: Immediate  Date: July 3, 2003

Contact: Patty McQuillan Phone: (919) 733-5027 (ext.232)

RALEIGH - Crime Control and Public Safety Secretary Bryan Beatty named Jonathan S. Williams assistant secretary for administration effective July 1.

Williams was general counsel for the department prior to this promotion. In his new position, Williams will be responsible for the Fiscal Affairs, Information Systems, Human Resources and Organizational Effectiveness sections of the department.

"Jon has proven himself capable of handling many difficult tasks with accuracy and insight," Beatty said. "His leadership managing the funds, people, technology and planning for the department will be vital to our mission of reducing crime and enhancing public safety."

Williams joined the Department in 1999 as deputy general counsel and legislative liaison. He was named special assistant to Secretary Beatty in 2001 and general counsel for the department in January 2003. Williams also practiced law from 1990 to 1999 in his hometown of Goldsboro.

Williams was raised in an Air Force family with roots in eastern North Carolina. The family returned in 1979, where Mr. Williams graduated with honors from Eastern Wayne High School. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill he earned a Bachelor's degree in political science and philosophy and a law degree. At the law school he received awards for the highest grades in constitutional law and in trial advocacy and was president of the Student Bar Association.

While in Goldsboro, Williams served as president of the Wayne County Bar Association and as the founding chair of the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers' Young Lawyers Division. He has also served as president of the Wayne Community Foundation, vice-chair of the Chamber of Commerce, and chairman of the Community College Annual Fund Drive. He was on the board of directors of Wayne Health Properties, the American Cancer Society, and the Goldsboro Jaycees, and he served on the Human Rights Committee for Howell's Child Care Center. The North Carolina Jaycees named Williams as one of its Five Outstanding Young North Carolinians for 1999.

Williams will continue to live in Goldsboro with his family.

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