About the OCC:

Julie L. Williams
Acting Comptroller of the Currency

Julie L. Williams became Acting Comptroller on October 14, 2004, succeeding John D. Hawke, Jr. at the end of his term of office. Ms. Williams was initially appointed Chief Counsel of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in June 1994, with responsibility for all of the agency’s legal activities, including legal advisory services to banks and examiners, enforcement and compliance activities, litigation, legislative initiatives, and regulation of securities and corporate practices of national banks. As the agency’s statutory “First Deputy,” she previously served as Acting Comptroller from April 6, 1998 through December 8, 1998, before Mr. Hawke was sworn in as the 28th Comptroller of the Currency.

As Chief Counsel, Ms. Williams also supervised the Licensing Department and the Community Affairs Department, and served as a member of the OCC’s Executive Committee. In her current position, Ms. Williams leads the Executive Committee in providing policy and strategic direction to the agency.

Ms. Williams joined the OCC in May 1993 as Deputy Chief Counsel with responsibility for special legislative and regulatory projects. Before joining the OCC, Ms. Williams served in a variety of positions at the Office of Thrift Supervision and its predecessor agency, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, culminating in a position as Senior Deputy Chief Counsel at the OTS from 1991 to 1993. Ms. Williams joined the Bank Board in 1983, after working as an attorney with the law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Kampelman in Washington, D.C. from 1975 to 1983.

Ms. Williams is the author of National Banks and the Dual Banking System (Comptroller of the Currency, 2003) and Savings Institutions: Mergers, Acquisitions and Conversions (Law Journal Seminars-Press, 1988), and has published numerous articles on the regulation of depository institutions, financial services, securities and corporate law matters.

She was awarded a B.A. in 1971 from Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont, and a J.D. in 1975 from Antioch School of Law, Washington, D.C., where she was first in her class.

Comptrollers of the Currency