She also has been the anchor for the past two years of the Discovery Health Channel's Birth Day Live.

Williams is a highly acclaimed broadcast journalist whose investigative work on such topics as foreign policy, ethics, technology and health have made her a respected authority and recognized voice for public information. Williams' preeminent stature as a news anchor, programmer and television personality extends to cable, corporate, public television and interactive media.

As one of the primary architects behind the design of the first worldwide television network, Williams oversaw the construction of the Cable News Network (CNN)'s New York bureau at the World Trade Center prior to the launch of the network in 1980 and served as the channel's principal anchor and vice president in charge of the New York bureau through 1988. She contributed to CNN's award-winning program lineup and played a major role in the network's development, globalization and satellite-trafficking system. She was a critical member of CNN's political anchor team and oversaw the planning and operation of the its second largest bureau, which was responsible for seven hours of original programming a day.

High-ranking TV Executive
In 1982, Williams was appointed vice president, becoming one of the highest-ranking female executives in American television.

Williams was the first woman to win a national Emmy Award for anchoring an evening newscast during her tenure with NBC from 1989 to 1993. For NBC News, she also anchored Sunday Today, NBC News Special Reports, Yesterday Today & Tomorrow and NBC's extended coverage of Desert Storm: War in The Gulf. Williams was a frequent anchor of and correspondent for NBC Nightly News, Sunrise and The Today Show.

In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, she wrote and hosted a three-hour PBS special, Reaching Out to Heal. She also hosted a companion program to Bill Moyers' On Our Own Terms, about death and dying, which aired in Fall 2000 on PBS. As host of Hallmark's weekly True North program on personal ethics, Williams earned the 2001 Gracie Allen Award and the 2000 Donald McGannon Ethics in Media Award. Her 90-minute PBS special on alcoholism and addiction, Within Reach, along with her continuing work as a PBS contributing correspondent and anchor on Religion & Ethics Newsweekly have established Williams as a recognized commentator and reporter on broad issues of ethics.