Andrew Williams (U.S. Navy lawyer)

Andrew Williams is an American lawyer, and officer in the United States Navy Reserve and the Navy's Judge Advocate General Corp. Williams lives in Gig Harbor, Washington.

Williams is notable for his resignation from the Navy, in December 2007. In a letter to the Peninsula Gateway, that received widespread comment, Williams explained his decision to resign was triggered by answers Brigadier Thomas W. Hartmann, gave in his Senate testimony about torture. Hartmann was the senior serving officer in the Office of Military Commissions—the body that conducts Guantanamo military commissions.

Legal career
Williams joined the Navy after completing his law degree. He shifted from the Regular Navy to the Naval Reserves in 1995.

The Eric Eugene Cooper case
Williams defended Eric Eugene Cooper, a multiply married man who had told the women was trying to woo that he was an Annapolis graduate and a Navy SEAL. Cooper was accused of multiple counts of defrauding his wives and girlfriends. Williams helped Cooper plead guilty to a single count of fraud, for which he received a fifteen-year sentence.