Rebekah Uqi Williams is a former territorial level politician. She served as a member of the Nunavut Legislature from 2000 until 2004.
Williams was elected in a by-election in the Quttiktuq electoral district on December 4, 2000. She defeated seven other candidates with 21% of the vote including former MLA Levi Barnabas who had previously vacated the seat after he pled guilty to assault as well as former Northwest Territories MLA Tommy Enuaraq.
Williams served a partial term in office, and ran for re-election in the 2004 Nunavut general election. Despite increasing her popular vote she was easily defeated by Barnabas.
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