Bernice Williams is an American songwriter and music business manager, who wrote the 1960s song "Duke of Earl"[1][2] along with Gene Chandler and Earl Edwards.[3] The song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002 and is in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the 500 songs that shaped rock and roll.[4] In the 1960s, she wrote three Billboard Hot 100 hit songs.