Pete Williams

Louis Alan "Pete" Williams is a former American journalist and former government official. From 1993 to 2022, he was a television correspondent for NBC News. He served in the administration of President George H. W. Bush. Williams was raised in Casper, Wyoming where his mother was a realtor and his father was an orthodontist. "Pete" is a nickname he has used since childhood. After he graduated from Stanford University, where he had originally studied engineering but subsequently changed to journalism, he began his career in local news with the Casper, Wyoming, television station KTWO and its eponymous radio station in 1974. In 1986, Williams became press secretary for U.S. Representative Dick Cheney and followed Cheney to the United States Department of Defense as Cheney became United States Secretary of Defense to be the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs in 1989 during the George H. W. Bush administration. Williams became a correspondent for NBC News in late March 1993, after leaving the Defense Department. His main areas of news coverage for NBC include the Department of Justice and Supreme Court. He retired from NBC News on July 29, 2022.