Government and Public Service
In 1912 he became Chancellor of First Chancery Division of Tennessee. In 1913 he was appointed to complete a vacated seat on the Tennessee Supreme Court. The next year he was elected to the court for a four year term. He was re-elected in 1918. He left the Tennessee Supreme Court to serve as first dean of the Lamar School of Law (also known as Emory University School of Law) at, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia from 1919 to 1924.
He was appointed to codify the laws of Tennessee in 1928 and again in 1938. His eight volume work, Williams Annotated Code of Tennessee, commonly known as "The Williams Code", became a model for other state revisions.
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