The Carol H. Williams and the Rejected Script short launched Ad Age Illustrated, a new animation series based on significant milestones in the advertising industry. This inaugural film celebrates Advertising Hall of Famer Carol H. Williams, one of our industry’s first female and African American creative directors. Ms. Williams recalls a formative 1970 experience that helped shape her history-making career. At just 20 years old, she had written a commercial script that would be rejected. She was “devastated” until a remarkable encounter with the legendary Leo Burnett himself changed her life.