Jewel Williams Johnson

Jewel Williams Johnson proudly serves as the Westchester County Legislator representing the 8th Legislative District. Re-elected in 2025, she is currently serving her third term on the Westchester County Board of Legislators, having succeeded her mother, the Honorable Alfreda Williams, in 2021

Legislator Williams Johnson is a proven fiscal and policy leader, having chaired the Committee on Budget & Appropriations from her first term through the end of her second term—the first freshman legislator to do so in Board history. Since joining the Board, she has also chaired some version of its Health portfolio, and currently serves as Chair of the Committee on Health, Vice Chair of the Committee on Social Services, Disabilities and Human Rights, and Vice Chair of the Parks and Environment Committee, while continuing to serve on Budget & Appropriations, Litigation (Law & Major Contracts), and the Families Task Force.

In addition to her legislative roles, Legislator Williams Johnson also serves on the Westchester County Board of Health and the Community Services Board, helping to guide public health and human service strategies countywide.

She is an active member of the New York State Association of Counties (NYSAC) and serves on both the Medicaid & Human Services Standing Committee and the Public Health & Mental Health Standing Committee, ensuring Westchester’s voice is heard at the state level.

As Chair of the Committee on Health, Legislator Williams Johnson ensures that the Board addresses pressing health issues affecting Westchester residents. Topics explored under her leadership have included: 

• Mental health access and equity 
• Digital access inequities and their impact on health disparities 
• Domestic violence prevention
• Harms of tobacco/flavored tobacco/vapes
• Infant suffocation education 
• Baby formula shortages and market monopolies 
• Pediatric firearm injuries as a public health crisis 
• Long COVID 
• Political polarization and its impact on personal relationships 
• Suicide prevention 
• Veteran healthcare and denied Medicare claims 
• Prescription drug affordability 
• Maternal health disparities 
• Mental health insurance parity 
• Food insecurity among college students 

Through Legislator Williams Johnson’s sustained advocacy, County budgets restored funding to reopen the mental health clinics closed in 2011. The first clinic reopened in White Plains last year, with additional reopenings anticipated as federal support and County fiscal conditions strengthen.

In her first year on the Board, Legislator Williams Johnson was the primary sponsor of two landmark bills: the Gun Safety Signage Law and the Flavored Tobacco Ban.

Deeply committed to public service and community engagement, Legislator Williams Johnson is known for being accessible, responsive, and genuinely attentive to the needs of her constituents. She is a past president of the Westchester Black Women’s Political Caucus, Inc. (WBWPC), founder of the WBWPC Run Lead Strategy Laboratory, and a district leader with the Greenburgh Democratic Committee. Her extensive civic involvement also includes:

• Former Vice President, White Plains-Greenburgh NAACP 
• Former Member, Westchester County Women’s Advisory Board 
• Former Mentor Program Coordinator, Highview Elementary School 
• Former President, Women’s Ministry and Sunday School Teacher at Bethel Baptist Church 
• Former Advisory Board Member, WCLA – Choice Matters 
• Former Member, Town of Greenburgh Arts & Culture Board 
• Guest Lecturer on Politics at Lehman College 
• Occasional contributor to 'The Westchester County Press'

Professionally, Jewel brings more than 14 years of experience as an administrator at Columbia University Irving Medical Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

A proud product of the Greenburgh Central School District, Legislator Williams Johnson was raised in Greenburgh, where she resides with her husband Lacy Johnson, her mother, and their beloved 14-year old Dalmatian, Jasper. She considers it a profound blessing to serve the community she calls home.