Dr. H. James Williams is the fifteenth president of Fisk University. Prior to Fisk, he served as dean of the Seldman College of Business at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. President Williams earned a B.S. degree in accounting at North Carolina Central University, a Ph.D. degree in accounting at the University of Georgia (Athens), a M.B.A. degree in accounting at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) and the J.D. and LL.M. (Taxation) degrees at Georgetown University Law Center. President Williams is also a Certified Management Accountant He has worked in the public accounting profession and in the legal profession (as a corporate and tax attorney).
He has received recognition for his outstanding teaching at Georgetown University, Florida A&M University and Texas Southern University. President Williams has received numerous recognitions and awards and his research work is widely published in scholarly and practitioner journals, including Accounting and Finance, Technovation, Issues in Accounting Education, Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting, The Journal of Accountancy, The Practical Accountant, The Journal of Small Business Management, and The CPA Journal.
North Carolina Central University
Dr. H. James Williams
