Editor Named

Michelle Williams, deputy Life & Style editor of the Los Angeles Times, has been named Life & Style editor, Editor Michael Parks has announced.

Williams, 40, joined The Times in 1990 as an assistant View editor. She was named deputy View editor in 1993. (In 1994, View became Life & Style.) Williams will remain as editor of the Health section.

Williams, a native of Queens, N.Y., and graduate of City College of New York, completed course work for a master’s degree in public administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Before joining the Times, she was a reporter, columnist, assistant metro editor and features editor at the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, N.Y. Prior to that, she was a reporter at the Arizona Republic, the Buffalo News and the Buffalo Courier Express.