Juliet Williams

Juliet Williams is a journalist and editor who served as opinion editor of The San Francisco Standard until 2024. Before joining The Standard, she spent over two decades in leadership roles at the Associated Press, most recently as news editor for Northern California, where she directed coverage of wildfires and the pandemic. Earlier in her career, she was a Sacramento-based political writer covering the administrations of Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown, earning numerous reporting awards. She holds degrees in political science and English from the University of Alberta and in journalism from King’s University College in Halifax. She serves on the board of the First Amendment Coalition.