Duvall Williams

{{short description|American lawyer}}

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|nickname= "Mac"

|birth_date= {{birth date and age|1943|2|6}}

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|birth_place= Fayetteville, North Carolina

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|allegiance= United States

|branch= United States Navy

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|rank= Rear Admiral

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|commands= Naval Investigative Service

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|awards= Legion of Merit (2)
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Duvall McClellan "Mac" Williams, Jr. (born 6 February 1943){{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/25/us/senior-navy-officers-suppressed-sex-investigation-pentagon-says.html |title=Senior Navy Officers Suppressed Sex Investigation, Pentagon Says |first=Eric |last=Schmitt |date=25 September 1992 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2021-03-17}} is a retired rear admiral of the United States Navy who was a commander of the United States Naval Investigative Service.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/01/opinion/the-navy-at-its-brassiest.html|title = Opinion | the Navy at Its Brassiest|newspaper = The New York Times|date = October 1992}} His tenure included the time of the Tailhook scandal; he and Rear Admiral John E. Gordon were tasked with conducting the investigation.{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-25-mn-1182-story.html|title = Pentagon Blasts Navy's Tailhook Investigation| website=Los Angeles Times |date = 25 September 1992}} After their report was subject to harsh criticism by the Pentagon in 1992, Williams and Gordon resigned.{{Cite web|url=http://tech.mit.edu/V112/N44/tailhook.44w.html|title = Pentagon Blasts Tailhook Probe, Two Admirals Resign - the Tech}}

Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina and raised in Wilmington, North Carolina, Williams earned a B.S. degree in chemistry from Wake Forest University in 1965{{cite book |title=Howler '65 |date=1965 |page=226 |publisher=Wake Forest College |location=Winston-Salem, North Carolina}} and a J.D. degree from the Wake Forest University School of Law in 1968.{{cite web |url=https://ncisahistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/1990-1992-RADM-Duvall-M.-Mac-Williams-JAGC-USN.pdf |title=RADM Duvall M. "Mac" Williams Jr., USN |date=29 August 2017 |publisher=NCISA History Project |access-date=2021-03-17}} After law school, he was commissioned as a reserve officer in the Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps. Called to active duty in 1969, he later earned an LL.M. degree from the University of London.