Williamsburg city council member Ayanna T. Williams should be graduating from William & Mary this spring -- two years before her city term expires -- but says she isn’t going anywhere.
“Williamsburg comes first,” said Williams, a 20-year old senior who became the first black woman elected to city council last year. She was also the first full-time student to serve in government.
Scott Foster was the first student elected to city council in 2010, when he was just weeks away from graduation.
Williams was a junior majoring in government when she won the seat formerly held by Caleb Rogers last year. She was sworn in on January 9 of this year.
Although she would like to attend law school, she insisted in an interview this summer that if she were not accepted at a local institution, she would remain in the city to fill out her city council term.
Williams said her first year on council has been spent learning the ins and outs of government. She is usu…