Chamber Breakfast Sponsored by A+ Federal Credit Union Speaker: State Commissioner of Education, Micheal Williams. Michael L. Williams was appointed Texas Commissioner of Education by Gov. Rick Perry on Sept. 1, 2012. As Commissioner, he heads the Texas Education Agency, which oversees pre-kindergarten through high school education for approximately five million students enrolled in both traditional public schools and charter schools. During his distinguished career, Williams has served as an assistant district attorney in hometown of Midland, a federal prosecutor in the Reagan Justice Department, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Law Enforcement at the U.S. Department of the Treasury under President George Herbert Walker Bush, and Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education. In 1998, Gov. George W. Bush appointed Williams to the Railroad Commission of Texas, the three-member commission which oversees oil and gas regulation. Texans subsequently elected him to the Commission in 2000, 2002 and 2008. The son of public school teachers, Williams holds a Bachelor's, Master's and law degree from the University of Southern California, and has been married to his best friend, Donna, for more than 29 years.