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Tammy Williams is
a founding director of Indigenous Enterprise Partnerships. She is
a young Murri woman (the indigenous people of Queensland). Tammy
is an admitted and practicing Barrister-at-Law of the Supreme Court
of Queensland and the High Court of Australia.
Since 1991, Tammy has been supporting her mother Lesley Williams’
research and international campaign for the return of Indigenous
Queensland workers’ wages and savings. She also has a long
history of developing capacity-building strategies for Indigenous
people and communities.
In 1996, Tammy was awarded the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity
Commission Human Rights (Youth Category) award. In recognition of
her academic and social justice achievements, she was awarded the
“John Koowarta Scholarship” by the National Law Council
of Australia. In 2003 Tammy was awarded by the Queensland Women
Law Association, the “Emergent Lawyer of the Year”.
Between 2003 and 2007, Tammy was a member of the federal government’s
National Indigenous Council (NIC) which provided advice on Indigenous
issues to Minister Mal Brough and the Ministerial Taskforce on Indigenous
Affairs.
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