Carlos Williams received his J.D. from Antioch School of Law in 1981 and his B.A. degree from Friends World College. He has been admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth, Eleventh and Federal Circuits, the United States Supreme Court and the Bar of the State of Alabama. Before joining the Federal Defenders Organization in Mobile, he was a staff attorney with Legal Services Corporation of Alabama (LSCA) and Director of the LSCA Migrant Project. He was also engaged in private practice in Selma and Birmingham, Alabama as a partner in the firm of Chestnut, Sanders, Sanders, Turner, Williams & Pettaway.