Illinois National Guard flight surgeon, a Dixon doctor, promoted to colonel

SPRINGFIELD – A doctor at OSF Saint Katharine Medical Center in Dixon has been promoted to the rank of colonel in the Illinois National Guard.

Dr. Timothy J. Williams of Byron was promoted to colonel in a Jan. 4 ceremony at the Illinois State Military Museum on Camp Lincoln in Springfield.

Williams is a flight surgeon assigned to the Illinois National Guard’s Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 106th Aviation Regiment, based in Peoria.

After earning a Bachelor of Science in physician assistant studies from Des Moines University in 2004, Williams was commissioned into the Illinois National Guard as a second lieutenant, where he served his first stint as the 106th’s flight surgeon. He deployed to Fort Johnson, formerly Fort Polk, Louisiana, in 2004 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Between 2007 and 2014, Williams completed medical school and medical residency. He also transitioned to the U.S. Army Reserves.

Williams in 2017 returned to the Illinois National Guard and began his second stint as the 106th’s flight surgeon, where he continues to serve. Williams practices family medicine at OSF Saint Katharine Medical Center in Dixon.