Two director-level transactions have occurred recently at the NCAA national office.

Andrea Williams, an assistant commissioner with the Big Ten Conference, is joining the staff as a director of the Division I Women's Basketball Championship, while Keith Gill, director of membership services, is leaving the national office to assume new responsibilities as an associate athletics director for administration at the University of Oklahoma.

Williams, a six-year staff member at the Big Ten, will serve as a liaison on governance matters to the institutions, conferences and local organizing committees that host preliminary-round sessions of the championship. She also will assist in coordinating tournament host seminars and conduct site surveys to ensure consistent application of championship policies and procedures.

Williams also will coordinate and monitor all aspects of the automatic-qualification program.

Williams joined the Big Ten in 1998 and most recently served as the director of promotions and women's basketball operations. Williams also was a member of the league's television senior management team.

Before coming to the Big Ten, Williams held several positions in broadcasting, including stage manager at CBS Sports from 1996 to 1998 and cameraperson for ESPN in 1995. In addition, Williams worked for a year as a producer and reporter at a television station in College Station, Texas.

Williams earned a bachelor's degree in speech education from Texas A&M University, College Station, in 1997. She was a volleyball and basketball student-athlete at Texas A&M, and she was named the volleyball team's offensive player of the year in 1995.

Gill has served two stints at the national office. He served in a variety of capacities during a five-year stay at the national office from 1994 through 1999 before taking an assistant athletics director position at Vanderbilt University.

Gill then rejoined the national office staff in August 2000 as a director of membership services.

In his new capacity at Oklahoma, Gill will oversee compliance, human resources, strategic and annual planning, governance issues, sports supervision and risk management.

Gill played football at Duke University and graduated with a degree in history and sociology before landing an NCAA internship in 1994. He began with the professional development staff at the national office before moving on as an intern in youth programs.

He later was named as a compliance coordinator in the membership services staff, where he remained until assuming the assistant athletics director for administration position at Vanderbilt in February 1999.

Gill's membership services role included his involvement with the athletics certification program and staff liaison to the Division I Committee on Athletics Certification and the NCAA Minority Opportunities and Interests Committee, among other duties.