Maggie Williams

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For other persons named Margaret Williams, see Margaret Williams (disambiguation).

Margaret "Maggie" Ann Williams (born December 25, 1954 in Kansas City, Missouri) is the campaign manager for Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. Following Clinton's win in the New Hampshire primary in January 2008, Williams was brought onto the Clinton campaign staff as a senior adviser. On February 10, 2008, she replaced Patti Solis Doyle as the campaign's manager.^[1]

[edit] Biography

Williams attended high school in Kansas City, Missouri. She received her undergraduate degree from Trinity Washington University in 1977 and her masters from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

She served as chief of staff for Hillary Clinton during her first term as First Lady of the United States, the first African American woman to hold that position. Prior to this, she was employed by the Children's Defense Fund and Senator Robert Torricelli.^[2]

Since 2000 Williams served as the President of Fenton Communications. In this position, she became the highest ranked black woman in an American top-50 public relations firm. Previously, Williams served as a communications consultant in Paris. From 2000 to 2007, Williams also served as director at Delta Financial Corporation, a mortgage lender that filed for bankruptcy in December 2007.^[3]