Diane Wray Williams (born January 23, 1938) was an American businesswoman, educator, and politician. Williams was born in

Fremont, Ohio Fremont is a city in and the county seat of Sandusky County, Ohio, United States, located along the banks of the Sandusky River. It is about 35 miles from Toledo and 25 miles from Sandusky. It is part of the Toledo metropolitan area. The populat ...

. She graduated from Syracuse University, in 1959, with a bachelor's degree in English. Williams lived in

Moorhead, Minnesota Moorhead () is a city in and county seat of Clay County, Minnesota, United States, on the banks of the Red River of the North. Located in the Red River Valley, an extremely fertile and active agricultural region, Moorhead is also home to several ...

with her husband and family. She was a business owner and a teacher. Williams served in the

Minnesota House of Representatives The Minnesota House of Representatives is the lower house of the Legislature of the U.S. state of Minnesota. There are 134 members, twice as many as the Minnesota Senate. Floor sessions are held in the north wing of the State Capitol in Saint ...

in 1989 and 1990 and was a

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. She then served on the Moorhead City Council in 2004.

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