Serena M. Williams is a professor of law and assistant dean of student affairs at the Widener University School of Law in Wilmington, Delaware. She teaches and researches in the areas of property law, landlord/tenant law, and environmental justice. Professor Williams received an AB in economics from Smith College in 1981. She received her JD from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1984 and her LLM in land use management and control from the George Washington University Law School in 1992.

Following graduation from law school, Professor Williams served as an attorney in the Office of Program Enforcement at the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. She also served as a financial economist in the Office of Economic and Tax Policy of the Washington, DC, Department of Finance and Revenue. As a law student, she clerked for the National Association of Home Builders.

Prior to joining the faculty at Widener, Professor Williams taught property, land use, and environmental law at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. She also served as an instructor of legal writing at the Howard University School of Law in Washington, DC.

Professor Williams currently serves on the board of directors of the ACLU of Delaware and of Planned Parenthood Delaware and on the Smith College Common Ground Alumnae Committee. She advises the Walnut Street YMCA delegation to the Delaware Youth In Government Program, a mock legislative program sponsored by the YMCA of Delaware. While in Kentucky, she served as a commissioner on the Kentucky Environmental Quality Commission.