I am here for you.

Hey, y’all!

My name is John Andrew Williams — but my friends call me Drew, and me and you are hopefully friends, so you can too.

I’ve lived my entire life right here in Western Kentucky, and no matter how many places I visit, there’s no place else I’d rather call home. I was Abraham Lincoln in a 4th Grade play held at the high school, I held the record for the most Accelerated Reader points in my school district from kindergarten through senior year, and my favorite classes were AP Government and AP English. I also helped take our county basketball team to the State Tournament for the first time in 16 years. I graduated from Murray State University in 2016 with a degree in History and a minor in Biology.

I’ve worked in family businesses since I was 14 years old, building boat docks primarily on Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley as well as the four states surrounding Western Kentucky. I’ve sunk boats full of tools, drilled thousands of holes with dulled-out bits, and installed sheet metal roofs, all in 115-degree heat, driving wind, and oncoming snowstorms — and I’d do it again tomorrow.  Because to me, hard work has built my character and working on the water (where everyone goes to vacation) brings about its own kind of inner-peace.

🛠️ Hardworking and Built From the Ground Up

Cut my leg pretty badly on the secondary roof of this dock ⬇️

🥔 Building Community, One Celebration and One Service Opportunity at a Time

I’m grateful to the Western Kentucky community that raised me up and gave me the ability, capacity, and opportunity to work towards goals that improve the lives of others. I have spent countless days since middle school volunteering in community build projects, natural disaster relief, community non-profit events and with those organizations, and its both uplifting and educational to learn more about how hard each space and individual works in order to keep the system working.

For the last six years, my wife and I have also worked with the surrounding community to revitalize the historic Tater Day festival into a more accessible event for everyone. We’ve focused on growing the number of events, increasing community service and awareness, modernizing outreach, and breathing new life into an aging space — not just to have a good time (though we do), but to create a level of inclusion and community engagement that has been sorely missing from rural spaces.

Through every community action and every event or point of charity service, I’ve been hopefully been proving a point: You don’t need political power to make a difference. You just need commitment, vision, and love for your people. Imagine what we could get done if this mentality were rampant among elected officials and the community at large.

🏡 Family First

I’m lucky to share my life with my incredible wife, Eryn Pritchett — a middle school history teacher who holds a master’s degree in Greek and Latin literature. She reminds me every day that the past matters — but the future is something we can shape together.

We have a young son, Alex, who is the heart of our world and the reason I believe even more fiercely in building a country where every child has a fair shot, every family feels supported, and every voice matters.

💙 Why I’m Running

I feel deeply privileged to have grown up in a place that taught me kindness, perseverance, and grace. I’ve been lifted up by neighbors, mentored by elders, and inspired by everyday people who cared more about doing what’s right than who gets the credit. I want to use my voice to help people who it’ll never benefit me personally to help, because that’s what people should do for one another, we help because its the right thing to do, not because its beneficial to ourselves.

Now, I’m running for Congress to take those values to Washington — not to divide us, but to remind us what’s possible when we stand together.

As our great Commonwealth declares:

United we stand, divided we fall.

Let’s stand together. Let’s build together. Let’s lead with hope.