A veteran Mobile Attorney and community leader Ronnie L. Williams will be the Grand Marshal of the 2011 Mammoth Parade, sponsored by the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association. This year’s parade will take place on Tuesday, March 8, 2011, at 2:00p.m.     Our 2011 Grand Marshal was born in Jackson, Alabama (Clarke County), and is the son of Mrs. Evelyn Williams, and the late Earl L. Williams. Being the product of a military family, Mr. Williams lived in a multitude of locations during his childhood including Fort Bliss, Texas, Ft. Belvoir, VA, London, England, and Oberammergau, Germany. Mr. Williams is a 1970 graduate of Arundel Senior High Baltimore, MD (Fort Meade, Maryland).     Mr. Williams is a graduate of Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) and The Florida State University College of Law.  He is licensed to practice law in Alabama and Florida, and is admitted to the bars of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, every Federal Court in the State of Alabama, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Tax Court, the United States Court of Federal Claims, and the United States Supreme Court.  Mr. Williams has also successfully argued a major First Amendment case before the United States Supreme Court, which has been noted as being one of the landmark decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court for 1985.  He also served as co-counsel in a voting rights case that lead to the redistricting of Alabama’s congressional districts and resulted in the historic election of the first African American congressman from Alabama. Mr. Williams has been involved in a number high profile and newsworthy court battles, primarily in federal court, and is the senior partner in the firm of Williams and Associates, LLC here in Mobile.     Mr. Williams is the current board chairman of the Sickle Cell Disease Association and the president of the Beta Omicron Lambda Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.  He has served on the Executive Committee of the Mobile Bar Association and is the immediate past president of the Bay Area Bar Association.  Mr. Williams has also served on the board of directors of a number of local non-profit community and charitable organizations including The United Way and Friends of the Library, and he is a member of The 100 Black Men of Greater Mobile.        Mr. Williams has been married for 34 years to his life partner, Theresa G. Williams, and they have five exceptional children, Reginald, Nichelle, Derrick, Ronald and Ryan, three of whom are also attorneys, including his daughter Nichelle, who is ending her two-year term as Legislative Counsel to outgoing Congressman Artur Davis, and who was recently named by a Washington, DC newspaper as one of the 50 Most Beautiful people on Capitol Hill (she was number 6).     Mr. Williams attends The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, and he wishes all a safe and enjoyable Mardi Gras season. We (MAMGA), wish everyone the safest and happiest Mardi Gras 2011!  Llaissez Les Bon Temps Rouler!!!!!