55th Mayor of Wilmington, Delaware.

Born in Wilmington on January 8, 1953, Dennis P. Williams was inaugurated on his 60th birthday as mayor of the city where he has spent his entire life.

Growing up on Wilmington's East Side, Mayor Williams attended Northeast Elementary School (now the East Side Charter School) and graduated in 1971 from Pierre S. du Pont High School. He looked up to his father, a post office manager who learned to speak French and Spanish fluently to better serve his customers. His teachers, especially Guy Molock and Karen Denton Johnson, served as mentors, as did Ernest Webster, a social worker at Kingswood Community Center who dedicated himself to keeping young men and women on the right path.