Corrections Secretary Raemisch
Appoints New Assistant Administrator for Community Corrections Division
Sharon Williams Currently Leads Community Corrections Region
Serving Milwaukee County
MADISON - Department of Corrections (DOC) Secretary Rick Raemisch today
announced the appointment of Sharon Williams to be the new Assistant
Administrator of the agency’s Division of Community Corrections (DCC).
“As the Chief of our DCC Region serving Milwaukee County, Sharon
Williams has been instrumental in ensuring our community supervision
resources are maximized and that safety is protected in the Milwaukee
community,” Secretary Raemisch said. “In addition, her three decades of
state service will be a tremendous asset to the Department as we pursue
reforms that strengthen community supervision, improve prisoner reentry
and reduce recidivism.”
Williams began her career working with the Wisconsin Department of
Health and Social Services as a Juvenile Specialist in 1979. In 1980,
she began her career in adult corrections as a Milwaukee probation and
parole agent, and in 1999 promoted to Corrections Field Supervisor. In
2000, she joined the Wisconsin Parole Commission as a Parole
Commissioner. In 2006, Williams was named Superintendent of the Marshall
E. Sherrer Correctional Center (MESCC), one of three minimum-security
correctional centers in Milwaukee that house offenders during their last
months of incarceration before they are returned to the community. She
was named Chief of the DCC Region serving Milwaukee County in 2007.
Williams also brings to the role skills in professional ethics, mental
health, case management, human resources, interviewing and counseling
techniques.
She is a United Way board member and is involved with both the American
and Wisconsin Correctional Associations. She earned a bachelor’s degree
in Criminal Justice from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Williams succeeds former DCC Administrator William J. Grosshans, who was
appointed Administrator of the Division of Adult Institutions in January
2009. In her new role, Williams will assist DCC Administrator Quala
Champagne in overseeing a Division with a workforce of 1,880 employees
that safely and securely manages approximately 70,000 offenders in
communities across Wisconsin. Her appointment takes effect May 24.
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