30 Facts About Kenneth Starr

Kenneth Winston Starr was an American lawyer and judge who authored the Starr Report, which led to the impeachment of Bill Clinton.

Kenneth Starr headed an investigation of members of the Clinton administration, known as the Whitewater controversy, from 1994 to 1998.

Kenneth Starr was initially appointed to investigate the suicide of deputy White House counsel Vince Foster and the Whitewater real estate investments of Clinton.

Kenneth Starr served as the dean of the Pepperdine University School of Law.

Kenneth Starr was later both the president and the chancellor of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, from June 2010 until May and June 2016, respectively, and at the same time the Louise L Morrison chair of constitutional law at Baylor Law School.

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Kenneth Starr's father was a minister in the Churches of Christ who worked as a barber.

Kenneth Starr attended Sam Houston High School in San Antonio and was a popular, straight-A student.

In 1970, Kenneth Starr married Alice Mendell, who was raised Jewish but converted to Christianity.

Kenneth Starr attended the Churches of Christ–affiliated Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, where he was an honor student, a member of the Young Democrats, and a vocal supporter of Vietnam protesters.

Kenneth Starr later transferred to George Washington University, in Washington, D C, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in history, in 1968.

Kenneth Starr was not drafted for military service during the Vietnam War, as he was classified 4-F, because he had psoriasis.

Kenneth Starr worked in the Southwestern Advantage entrepreneurial program and later attended Brown University, where he earned a Master of Arts degree in 1969.

Kenneth Starr then attended the Duke University School of Law, where he was an editor of the Duke Law Journal and graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1973.

Kenneth Starr encountered strong resistance from the Department of Justice leadership, which feared Starr might not be as reliably conservative as a Supreme Court justice.

Kenneth Starr considered running for the United States Senate, from Virginia in 1994, against incumbent Chuck Robb, but opted against opposing Oliver North for the Republican nomination.

Kenneth Starr replaced Robert B Fiske, a moderate Republican who had been appointed by attorney general Janet Reno.

In 2004, Kenneth Starr expressed regret for ever having asked the Department of Justice to assign him to oversee the Lewinsky investigation personally, saying, "the most fundamental thing that could have been done differently" would have been for somebody else to have investigated the matter.

Kenneth Starr was one of the lead attorneys in a class-action lawsuit filed by a coalition of liberal and conservative groups against the regulations created by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, known informally as McCain-Feingold Act.

Kenneth Starr originally accepted a position at Pepperdine as the first dean of the newly created School of Public Policy in 1996.

Kenneth Starr withdrew from the appointment in 1998, several months after the Lewinsky controversy erupted.

In 2004, some five years after President Clinton's impeachment, Kenneth Starr was again offered a Pepperdine position at the School of Law and this time accepted it.

In 2005, Kenneth Starr worked to overturn the death sentence of Robin Lovitt, who was on Virginia's death row for murdering a man during a robbery in 1998.

Kenneth Starr represented Blackwater in a case involving the deaths of four unarmed civilians killed by Blackwater contractors in Fallujah, Iraq, in March 2004.

Slate journalist Jeremy Stahl pointed out that as he was urging the Senate not to remove Trump as president, Kenneth Starr contradicted various arguments he used in 1998 to justify Clinton's impeachment.

In defending Trump, Kenneth Starr claimed he was wrong to have called for impeachment against Clinton for abuse of executive privilege and efforts to obstruct Congress and stated that the House Judiciary Committee was right in 1998 to have rejected one of the planks for impeachment he had advocated for.

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Kenneth Starr invoked a 1999 Hofstra Law Review article by Yale law professor Akhil Amar, who argued that the Clinton impeachment proved just how impeachment and removal causes "grave disruption" to a national election.

When Trump was impeached for a second time in 2021, Kenneth Starr condemned the impeachment as "dangerous" and "unconstitutional".

Kenneth Starr became Baylor's 14th president, replacing John Lilley who was ousted in mid-2008.

Kenneth Starr was additionally named chancellor of Baylor in November 2013, a post that had been vacant since 2005.

Kenneth Starr became the first person to hold the positions of president and chancellor at Baylor at the same time.