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R. Jerome Williams Sr.

R. Jerome Williams Sr.

Dr. Jerome Williams Sr. is a retired internist with 50 years of private practice. Williams attended Morehouse College and completed medical school at Meharry Medical College in 1947. He completed his residency program at Homer G. Phillips Hospital.

Williams is former director of tuberculosis service and of the outpatient department at Homer G. Phillips Hospital. He later founded a thriving medical practice, Gateway to Health in North St. Louis, which is now run by his son, Dr. Jerome Williams Jr. In 2002 he was honored by Tenet Healthcare Saint Louis and Forest Park Hospital as one of 13 physicians from the Mound City Medical Forum with 50 or more years of service to the black community.

Williams has been a civic leader in St. Louis for more than 30 years. He was one of the physicians and business professionals who protested discrimination in hiring practices at Jefferson Bank and Trust Co. in 1963. He later helped to found Gateway National Bank in North St. Louis.

Williams was elected to the college's District Board of Trustees in 1969, and later served as board president. He is a charter member of the STLCC Foundation Board of Directors since its revitalization in the 1990s.

He is active in a number of community organizations, and has served on the board of the St. Louis Symphony and as a commissioner for the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Williams and Carol, his wife of over 50 years, have five children and 15 grandchildren. The talented immediate family includes three medical doctors, a teacher, business executives and community leaders.