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Forces
for justice
CAREER PATHS
Major Ja Rai
Williams (JD ’05)
US Air Force, Senior Defense
Counsel, Colorado Region
Colorado Springs, Colorado
A convert from
corporate to
military life
W
hen United States Air Force Major Ja Rai Williams (JD ’05) was three years old,
she announced to her household that she wanted to be a lawyer. She held
onto that goal as she became the first in her family to earn an undergraduate
degree, obtained her securities license and worked in the finance industry,
and then entered Loyola’s School of Law, where she was a Philip H. Corboy Fellow and earned a
certificate in trial advocacy.
Williams had always pictured herself in a corporate law setting. Then, during a National Black
Law Students Association competition at which military lawyers served as volunteer judges, she
met an Air Force judge advocate who toldWilliams, “You’re just the kind of person the Judge
Advocate General’s Corps is looking for.” When Williams graduated from law school and passed
the bar, she went straight into the Air Force JAG Corps—and never looked back.
Loyola alums
embrace careers
as military
lawyers
Major Ja Rai Williams at the Air Force Academy in Colorado
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