{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} '''Rebecca Chase Williams''' was an American journalist and Mayor of Brookhaven, Georgia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://patch.com/georgia/brookhaven/election-2015-brookhaven-chooses-new-mayor-0|title = Ernst Becomes Brookhaven Mayor in a Landslide|date = 3 November 2015}}</ref> Previously a District 1 City Councilwoman, Williams became mayor after the city's inaugural mayor, J. Max Davis, resigned in May 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brookhavenpost.co/rebecca-chase-williams-in-as-brookhaven-mayor-linley-jones-to-district-one-council-seat/30700/ |title=Rebecca Chase-Williams in as Brookhaven Mayor, Linley Jones to District One Council seat | The Brookhaven Post | Brookhaven, GA |publisher=Brookhavenpost.co |date=2015-06-09 |accessdate=2015-06-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Williams |first=Dick |url=http://www.thecrier.net/news/article_84ad702c-0eaf-11e5-9dd7-bf2b55436856.html |title=Brookhaven twists and turns to put Rebecca Chase Williams in mayor's post - Dunwoody Crier: News |publisher=Thecrier.net |date=2015-06-09 |accessdate=2015-06-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.reporternewspapers.net/2015/06/10/new-mayor-city-councilor-chosen-for-brookhaven/ |title=New mayor, city councilor chosen for Brookhaven |publisher=Reporternewspapers.net |date=2015-06-10 |accessdate=2015-06-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://gapundit.com/2015/06/10/rebecca-chase-williams-named-brookhaven-mayor-election-qualifying-is-aug-31-sept-2/ |title=Rebecca Chase Williams named Brookhaven mayor; election qualifying is Aug. 31-Sept. 2 - Georgia Politics, Campaigns and Elections |publisher=GaPundit.com |date=2015-06-10 |accessdate=2015-06-20}}</ref> Prior to her public service, Williams was a distinguished ABC News journalist for more than twenty years.<ref>{{cite web|first=Michael |last=King |url=http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/brookhaven/2015/06/09/rebecca-chase-williams-sworn-in-as-brookhaven-mayor/28777575/ |title=Rebecca Chase-Williams sworn in as Brookhaven mayor |publisher=11alive.com |date=2015-06-09 |accessdate=2015-06-20}}</ref>
She was the wife of Dick Williams, Editor and publisher of ''The Dunwoody Crier'', a weekly newspaper covering Dunwoody, Brookhaven, and Sandy Springs. Williams hosted the weekly Atlanta television program, ''The Georgia Gang'' for decades.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.thecrier.net/article_a0e9e821-c2cd-535f-b90b-a8cec45f64b3.html |title=Dick Williams is 2011 parade grand marshal - Dunwoody Crier: Home |publisher=Thecrier.net |date=2011-01-18 |accessdate=2015-06-20}}</ref> She died of cancer on March 11, 2020.
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==External links== *[http://brookhavenga.gov/city-government/elected-officials/mayor/ Mayor Williams' page on Brookhaven city website] *[http://www.thecrier.net/ The Dunwoody Crier] *[http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/17343312/dick-williams-georgia-gang/ Dick Williams's webpage on The Georgia Gang]
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