COL Winston Williams

COL Winston Williams is a professor and head of the Department of Law & Philosophy at the United States Military Academy. 

Upon graduating from Florida A&M University in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering, COL Williams was commissioned as an Engineer officer and served as a platoon leader with the 44th Engineer Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, Republic of Korea. He also served as an executive officer for D Company, 35th Engineer Battalion, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. 

After attending law school, COL Williams transitioned into the Judge Advocate General’s Corps in 2004. Since becoming a judge advocate, he has served in a number of legal positions including: chief of administrative law, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg North Carolina; trial counsel, 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, Tikrit, Iraq; senior trial counsel, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg; senior operational law observer/controller, Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, Louisiana; professor of international and operational law, Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, Virginia, and chief of administrative and civil law, 18th Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg. 

COL Williams holds a LL.M in military law from the Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School and a juris doctorate from the University of Tennessee College of Law.