Tom Williams began his career in Law Enforcement as a Arkansas City Police officer before joining the Kansas Bureau of investigation were he worked as an agent for 19 years. Most of those 19 years he was the agent assigned to Iola Kansas. After leaving the KBI. Tom Williams became the sheriff for Allen County. During his time at the sheriff's department, he investigated the Sally Hutton case. He retired from law enforcement in 2013 and became an Allen County Commissioner.