Draft:Thomas L. Williams (judge)

Thomas Lanier Williams (1788 – December 2, 1856) was a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1825 to 1826.

"appointed 1816 (vice Hugh L. White), but next legislature declined to fill vacancy; born in North Carolina; chancellor for East Tennessee, 1836 to 1854; member of state senate from Knox County, 1819, 1821, 1823"

On May 16, 1825, while serving on the Supreme Court, Williams organized the chancery court for the district covering Carter, Greene, Washington, Cocke, Jefferson, and Sevier counties.

Williams served as Chancellor for the Eastern District of Tennessee for nearly a third of his life.

Williams died while visiting Nashville, Tennessee.