Sharonda Williams currently serves as General Counsel and Director of Government Affairs for Loyola University. Prior to that, she was Special Counsel at Fishman Haygood, LLP in New Orleans. Williams also served as City Attorney for the City of New Orleans from May 2013 to November 2015. As City Attorney, she was the lead attorney handling the most comprehensive police consent decree in the history of the United States as well as the consent decree aimed at reforming the Orleans Parish Jail. These endeavors required constant work with the United States Department of Justice.

Williams also served as the lead attorney representing the City in settling a more than 30-year dispute relating to back pay and pension issues for the New Orleans Firefighters. She had served as Chief Deputy City Attorney from October 2011 until May 2013.

Prior to joining the City of New Orleans, Williams was a partner in the general litigation section at Sher Garner, where she handled cases ranging from construction disputes, medical malpractice, insurance coverage disputes, entertainment law contract negotiations, intellectual property licensing issues, and bankruptcy adversary proceedings. She has served as the Chair of the Board of Commissioners of the Regional Transit Authority as well as being involved in numerous other professional and civic organizations.