| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
| Mrs Justice Heather Williams | |
| Office: | Justice of the High Court |
| Term Start: | 1 October 2021 |
| Appointer: | Elizabeth II |
| Birth Place: | Portsmouth, England |
| Nationality: | British |
| Alma Mater: | King's College London |
| Honorific Suffix: | DBE |
Dame Heather Jane Williams, (born 1963),[1] also known as The Honourable Mrs Justice Heather Williams DBE, is a British High Court judge.
Williams was born in Portsmouth, England and attended King's College London, graduating with a first-class LLB degree in 1984.[2]
She was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1985 and was in practice from 1987, specialising in civil liberties, judicial review and employment discrimination; she practised from and was deputy head of chambers of Doughty Street Chambers.[3] She appeared before the inquests into the Hillsborough disaster and was successful in Miriam O'Reilly's age discrimination case against the BBC. Williams took silk in 2006, was a part-time judge for the Employment Tribunals from 2005 until 2018, and served as a recorder and a deputy High Court judge from 2018.[4]
On 1 October 2021, Williams was appointed a judge of the High Court and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division.[5] She received the customary damehood in the same year.
On 1 January 2023, she became President of the Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)[6]
In 1997, she married Trevor Bragg and together they have a son and a daughter.