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Frank J. Williams served as chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court


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Frank J. Williams served as chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 2001-2008. He is active in mediating major cases in the state.
Mr. Williams, 77, was born in Richmond Rhode Island to Italian immigrant parents. Educated at Cranston East High School and Boston University, he served as a U.S. Army captain in Germany and Vietnam.
He is well-known as a devotee of Abraham Lincoln. This fall the Lincoln Forum is honoring his 25 years of leadership of that group. He served with the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and was inducted as a laureate of the Lincoln Academy of Illinois and was awarded the Order of Lincoln by the Illinois governor in 2009.
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