The Rev. Tiffany Williams is fulfilling her calling as a minister, lawyer and philanthropist, believing that God wanted her to use her talents to impact society. She has been recognized for her impact: by NJ Biz magazine as one of New Jersey’s Best 50 Women in Business and now by The Network Journal. A high achiever from childhood, Rev Williams became a leader “by always being the youngest to achieve everything I obtained,” she says. She notes with pride that her ambition to attain the highest educational goals earned her full scholarships for undergraduate studies and law school at Rutgers University and Northeastern University School of Law, respectively, and a tuition research grant for graduate study at Rutgers.
An associate at Riker Danzig Scherer, Hyland & Perretti L.L.P., she practices in the firm’s governmental affairs and litigation groups. A former assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Williams is highly respected in the legal profession, evidenced by her being named 2006 Young Lawyer of the Year by the New Jersey State Bar Association. She learned the importance of integrity from her role models: her mother, the Rev. Phyllis Williams, whom she describes as “the epitome of a virtuous woman;” her father, the Rev. Bruce Williams; and former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley, whom she served as a special assistant in his New Jersey District Office.
Williams has aspirations of becoming partner in her firm, running for public office and further developing the Kingdom Leadership Academy, a girls organization she founded in 2004, into a multi-million dollar international operation that provides mentoring, scholarships, leadership development, career development, public service opportunities and knowledge about government.
Reverend Williams is also the founder of The Esther Project. Through the Esther Project, she has traveled throughout the U.S. and abroad promoting the empowerment of women and girls, through a six-month personal empowerment challenge, weekly women’s empowerment teleconference and a leadership academy. She is also a singer, dancer and director of the Leadership Training Institute at the Upper Room Full Gospel Church in New Jersey, under the spiritual oversight of her parents. Through her ministry of empowerment, Tiffany Williams Ministries, Rev. Williams seeks to share the love and compassion of Christ to people everywhere. Her ministry efforts were recently celebrated with a Woman of Achievement Award from the Central Jersey Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. (of which she is a member) and a Sojourner Truth Award from the North Jersey Chapter of the National Negro Business & Profession Women’s Club. Rev. Williams is a frequent contributor on television and radio with several recent appearances to discuss her ministry. She is presently in the process of authoring an empowerment guide for women based on her experiences with the Esther Project.
“I always feel I am following my passion,” Williams says. “I want to show others how to follow their dreams. Everything that I do ties into my life mission and purpose, which I believe is to serve.”