Rebecca Chase Williams was a journalist and mayor of

Brookhaven, Georgia Brookhaven is a city in the northeastern suburbs of Atlanta that is located in western DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, directly northeast of Atlanta. On July 31, 2012, Brookhaven was approved in a referendum to become DeKalb County's 11th c ...

. Previously a District 1 City Councilwoman, Williams became mayor after the city's inaugural mayor, J. Max Davis, resigned in May 2015. Prior to her public service, Williams was a distinguished

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journalist for more than twenty years. Mayor Williams is the wife of Dick Williams, editor and publisher of ''The Dunwoody Crier'', a weekly newspaper covering Dunwoody, Brookhaven, and

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. Williams hosted the weekly Atlanta television program, '' The Georgia Gang'' for decades. She died of cancer March 11, 2020.

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Mayor Williams' page on Brookhaven city websiteThe Dunwoody CrierDick Williams's webpage on The Georgia Gang
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