Reginald Williams is an attorney-at-law and a Black pioneer in the field of public assembly facility management, where he specialized in stadiums and arenas. He was on the management team that opened The Omni Coliseum in 1972, and from 1987 - 1996 he served as Executive Director of the Atlanta-Fulton County Recreation Authority where he was also the Chief Operating Officer of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. From 1999 -2002 he managed the Augusta-Richmond County Civic Center and Bell Auditorium in Augusta, Georgia, and from 2003 to 2006 he was the Director of Administrative Services and the Affirmative Action Officer for Paine College, Augusta, Georgia.

His career has encompassed the management of facilities that housed the NBA, NFL, NHL, Major League Baseball, The World Series, Major College Basketball Tournaments, the 1996 Olympics and family shows of all descriptions. As political landscapes changed throughout the country he witnessed landmark changes in facility management in which the management of municipally funded stadiums and arenas largely shifted from management teams appointed by elected officials to private management companies that included the professional sports franchises, themselves. 

He has worked as a consultant and adviser to Anheuser-Busch St. Louis, where he worked with the Consumer Awareness and Education Department to develop programs that encouraged responsible drinking in sports facilities. He was also a consultant to The UniverSoul Circus, America's only African-American owned and operated circus, where he negotiated venue agreements and developed Local Organizing Committees to galvanize civic and political support for the circus engagements.

He is founder of Renaissance Events, Incorporated, where in conjunction with the African-American Philharmonic Orchestra, he produces and promotes the following programs: 

My Experiences With The Atlanta Compromise – An Exhibit of Pictures, Letters and Documents -  The exhibit begins with a 1894 letter written by Booker T. Washington and ends with discussions of two party politics within the Black community and four decades of Atlanta politics, including some during his tenure at both The Omni and Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.

The African-American Philharmonic Orchestra – Led by Mr. John Peek, the African-American Philharmonic Orchestra features musicians of African-American descent, many of whom are music professors at Atlanta institutions such as Clark Atlanta University, Georgia State University, Morehouse College, Morris Brown College and Spelman College. The orchestra is a 501.C.3 organization with a mission to advance the concept and practice of music to audiences everywhere. The orchestra was founded during a time when its members were neither welcomed nor encouraged to join the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.    

The Harlem Renaissance Symposium features an exhibit and discussions on art, poetry, literature, music and politics of the period. The symposium speaks  to the early differences between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, and the subsequent differences that DuBois had with Marcus Garvey. It also discusses how these diametric forces were joined in their criticism of President Woodrow Wilson. Other topics covered by the symposium are Jack Johnson’s reign as the World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, the tension created by the return of Black veterans from World War I, and the race riots of the period that personified DuBois’ view on the color line in America. The symposium asks the rhetorical question of how, during an era when there was such a wealth of Black intelligentsia and militancy, the fight for freedom and equal rights was extinguished for nearly 30 years.

A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Williams was born and raised in the historic community known as “The Ville”. He attended Charles Sumner High School, which is on the National Historic Register, and he and his family were members of the First Baptist Church, which literally is the first Baptist church founded west of the Mississippi River. As young boys, he and his brother “grew up” at the Pine Street YMCA and they were also Boy Scouts in Troop 146, where their father, a Silver Beaver, was the scout master. 

When he entered Clark College in the fall of 1960 the Atlanta Student Movement, which had begun earlier that spring, was just beginning to gain traction and attract national attention. My Experiences with the Atlanta Compromise(s) is an exhibit that gives a glimpse of Black history from 1894 through 1996. Accompanying the exhibit are vignettes and discussions by Williams where he gives his interpretation of the relevance of these letters, pictures and documents based his experience as a participant in the Student Movement, a witness to civil rights and politics in Atlanta, and as a Black pioneer in the field of arena and stadium management.

He credits his father, Charles M. Williams, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Muhammad Ali and the unnamed heroes of the civil rights movement for shaping his values and life’s decisions.

He met his late wife, Bernice Douglas Williams, at Tuskegee Institute in 1964. To that union were born three daughters. He is the grandfather of three granddaughters and two grandsons.

He is a graduate of the Woodrow Wilson College of Law, and has been a member of the Georgia Bar since 1978. He is a past chairman of the Atlanta-Fulton County Library Board of Trustees. He is a life member of the NAACP and an active member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.