Kenneth W. Starr enjoyed a distinguished and varied legal career even before his service as independent counsel guaranteed him a permanent and prominent place in American history. A Texas native with a bachelor’s degree from George Washington University and a law degree from Duke University, Judge Starr served as a law clerk for the late Chief Justice Warren Burger before joining a prominent Washington law firm. He went on to become the youngest judge ever appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals and President Bush’s solicitor general. In 1994, a three-judge panel appointed him to investigate President and Mrs. Clinton’s involvement in the Whitewater real estate venture. His jurisdiction was later expanded to include the administration’s dismissal of White House traveloffice staff, possession of confidential FBI files, and alleged subornation of perjury from Monica Lewinsky. He currently plans to return to private law practice.