| Clarissa S. Williams | |
| Birth Name: | Clarissa Smith |
| Birth Date: | 21 April 1859 |
| Birth Place: | Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, United States |
| Death Place: | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States |
| Death Cause: | Nephritis |
| Resting Place: | Salt Lake City Cemetery |
| Spouse: | William N. Williams |
| Children: | 11 |
| Parents: | George A. Smith Susan E. West |
| Portals: | LDS |
| Position Or Quorum1: | 6th Relief Society General President |
| Called By1: | Heber J. Grant |
| Predecessor1: | Emmeline B. Wells |
| Successor1: | Louise Y. Robison |
| End Date1: | [1] |
| Position Or Quorum2: | First Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency |
| Called By2: | Bathsheba W. Smith |
| Predecessor2: | Annie Taylor Hyde |
| Successor2: | Jennie B. Knight |
| Position Or Quorum3: | Treasurer of the General Presidency of the Relief Society |
| Called By3: | Bathsheba W. Smith |
| Start Date3: | 1901 |
Clarissa Smith Williams (April 21, 1859 – March 8, 1930) was the sixth Relief Society General President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1921 to 1928. Williams was the first native Utahn to become Relief Society president.
Clarissa Smith was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, to Susan West, the seventh wife of LDS Church apostle George A. Smith.[2]
In 1901, Williams was asked to serve as treasurer of the Relief Society by Bathsheba W. Smith, Smith's first wife.[3] Williams served in this position until 1910, when she became the first counselor to president Emmeline B. Wells in the Relief Society general presidency. She held this position until 1921, when she was chosen to succeed Wells as president after Wells's death. Due to failing health, Williams asked to be released from her calling in 1928 and was succeeded by Louise Y. Robison. Williams died of nephritis in Salt Lake City[4] and was buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.[5]
Williams married William N. Williams on July 17, 1877 and was the mother of eleven children (including George Albert, Bathsheba, Lyman, Clarissa, Sarah, Eva, Georgia).[6]
