David Lewis Williams (born May 28, 1953) is President of the Kentucky Senate. He was reared in Burkesville in Cumberland County in central Kentucky. He graduated from the University of Kentucky at Lexington and later earned his Juris Doctor from the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville in Louisville.

Williams is the son of Lewis Williams, a former Cumberland County clerk of court. A Republican, Williams was elected in 1984 at the age of thirty-one to the Kentucky House of Representatives and served a two-year term from District 53. He was then elected state senator in 1986, when the incumbent Republican, Doug Moseley, a United Methodist minister, declined to seek a fourth term. In the 1986 Republican primary, Williams narrowly defeated Campbellsville city attorney Larry Noe. Williams continues to serve in the Senate from the 16th District, based in in Cumberland County in central Kentucky.

In 1992, Williams was the unsuccessful GOP nominee in 1992 against Democratic U.S. Senator Wendell Ford, a former governor. When the Kentucky Senate gained a Republican majority for the first time in the history of the Commonwealth, Williams was elected President of the body.

In 2009, Williams announced that he will remain in the state Senate and not challenge U.S. Senator Jim Bunning in the 2010 Republican senatorial primary. Thereafter, Bunning announced that he would not seek reelection to a third term.

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• Kentucky Legislature - Senator David L. Williams official government site
• Project Vote Smart - Senator David L. Williams (KY) profile
• Follow the Money - David L Williams
  • 2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 1994 campaign contributions
• KentuckyVotes.org - David L. Williams bills introduced and voting record
• The Lane Report - One-On-One with David L. Williams
  • February 2004 December 1999