Tammy Williams
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Well before her 20s, Tammy was a vocal spokeswoman for issues affecting young people in Australia. In 1996, she was identified as a future leader and selected to attend the State of the World Forum in San Francisco.
For her efforts, she was awarded the 1997 Youth Award by the Australian Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission.
She went on to address other international forums, including being invited by the UN Commissioner of Human Rights to speak at the United Nations World Conference on Racism, Xenophobia, Discrimination and Other Related Intolerances, in Durban, South Africa in 2001.
Tammy went on to get her law degree from the Queensland University of Technology in 2001 and was admitted to practice as a Barrister in Queensland.
She has worked as a prosecutor for the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions and in 2003 was named the ‘Emergent Young Lawyer of the Year’ by the Queensland Women Law Association.
She’s also one of the Indigenous Directors on the Board of Indigenous Enterprise Partnerships.