About

Maj. Gen. Timothy P. Williams, USA (Ret.)

Retired U.S. Army Major General Timothy P. Williams served under three different governors as the Adjutant General of Virginia for nine years and retired in 2023 after 38 years in the U.S. Army. As the Adjutant General, he was agency head for the Virginia Department of Military Affairs, the state agency providing leadership and administrative support to the Virginia Army National Guard, Virginia Air National Guard and Virginia Defense Force.

Williams led the VA National Guard through an unprecedented operational tempo that included the organization’s support to Virginia’s COVID-19 response lasting more than 460 days where they assisted with vaccinations, testing and administrative, logistics and planning support at locations across the state to help keep their fellow Virginians safe during the global pandemic. VA National Guard personnel quickly deployed to assist civilian law enforcement with the January 6 civil disturbance response in Washington, D.C. and stayed to support security operations at the 59th Presidential Inauguration. During Williams’ last two years as Adjutant General, more than 2,000 Virginia National Guard personnel mobilized on federal active duty in the United States and overseas, the third most in the last century.

Since his retirement in 2023, Williams has been the advisor to the Chief of National Guard Bureau (NGB) on Intergovernmental Affairs where he supported the development of policies and legislative agenda that was coordinated across the NGB Joint Staff, Directors of the Army and Air National Guard as well as the 54 Adjutants General and their respective states, territories and the District of Columbia.

Williams, a lifelong Virginian and a 1984 graduate of Virginia Tech, earned his commission as a field artillery officer. He has served at every level of the military beginning with a tour on active duty with the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and then transitioning to the Virginia Army National Guard in 1990. Williams served much of his military career as a traditional status National Guard Soldier and he also built a career as a federal civil servant culminating as the Director of Training Support and Doctrine at the Combined Arms Support Command at Fort Lee, Virginia.

He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Management Science from Virginia Tech and has a Master of Arts in Management from Webster University and a Master of Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College.

Most importantly, General Williams has been married to his college sweetheart, Cheryl, for 39 years. They have three wonderful children as well as two daughters-in-law, one son-in-law, and three grandchildren.