Thomas "Dennie" Williams worked as a staff writer at The Hartford Courant for almost 40 years before retiring in November 2005 to become an Internet freelance investigative reporter. He graduated from the Choate School in 1958 and Middlebury College in 1962. For a short while, he worked as an interviewer and traveling spokesman in the college admissions department. After college, he joined the U.S. Army, went through artillery OCS and Intelligence School before he became a military intelligence officer specializing in investigating North Korean border crossers. When he returned from that assignment, Dennie worked on secret and top secret security clearances for government employees in Washington, D.C. He finished his military assignments in 1964 and was hired as a Courant staffer in 1966. Throughout his career at the Courant, he has been a town reporter, a night police reporter, a state desk reporter, a state and federal court reporter and an investigative team reporter. He has been a supervisor of state reporters assigned to investigative work. During his career, Dennie received numerous national, state and local journalism awards. He is an officer in a land trust nature preserve and a director in a waterfowl sanctuary.