[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 109 (Thursday, June 27, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E860]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       HONORING SPECIAL AGENT MICHAEL WILLIAMS ON HIS RETIREMENT

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                          HON. GARY J. PALMER

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, June 27, 2019

  Mr. PALMER. Madam Speaker, I rise to honor Special Agent Michael 
Williams for his 32 years of dedicated service to Alabama as a member 
of the United States Secret Service. He concludes his distinguished 
career as the Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Secret Service 
Birmingham Field Office, where he has had executive oversight over 
operations in Alabama and Mississippi since 2016.
  Special Agent Williams is a native of Birmingham and a graduate of 
the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He joined the Secret Service 
in 1985 and over the span of his career has been recognized for 
investigative excellence, including receiving the Outstanding Law 
Enforcement Officer of the Year Award.
  In 1996, he was assigned to the Presidential Protective Division in 
Washington, D.C. where he protected President William J. Clinton and 
President George W. Bush. He was promoted to a Supervisory Special 
Agent assigned to the Protective Intelligence Division in 2001.
  Special Agent Williams was able to come home in 2003, when he was 
promoted to Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Birmingham Field 
Office.
  He returned to Washington, D.C. in 2005 where he served as the 
Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Presidential Protective 
Division. In October 2008, he was promoted to the Special Agent in 
Charge of the Columbia, South Carolina Field Office.
  In January 2013, he once again found his way to D.C. when he was 
promoted into the Senior Executive Service where he served as the 
Special Agent in Charge of the Protective Intelligence and Assessment 
Division. In this capacity, he had executive oversight for protective 
intelligence, threat assessments and the Secret Service behavioral 
analysis program. In 2015, he was promoted to the position of Deputy 
Assistant Director in the Secret Service Office of Protective 
Operations. He ensured that the President, the First Lady and all 
protected persons, places and events received the highest level of 
security based on threats and vulnerabilities.
  Throughout his career, Special Agent Williams has also served the 
community volunteering for a number of organizations, including the Big 
Brother program, Boys/Girls Club and Crime Stoppers of Metro Alabama. 
He is a member of Kappa Alpha Phi fraternity and received UAB's 
Outstanding Alumni Award. He is married to Angela Bryant-Williams and 
they have a son, Bryant Michael Williams.
  I am grateful to Special Agent Williams for his 32 years of service 
to this country and wish him well in retirement.

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