“I deeply regret that I took on the Lewinsky phase of the investigation,” he wrote. “But at the same time, as I still see it 20 years later, there was no practical alternative to my doing so.”
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The son of a minister who sold Bibles door to door to pay for college, Kenneth Winston Starr was born on July 21, 1946, in Vernon, Tex., and spent two years at Harding College, a Church of Christ school in Searcy, Ark., before transferring to George Washington University. He went on to earn a master’s degree in political science from Brown University and a law degree from Duke.
He married Alice Jean Mendell in 1970 one week before starting law school, and they went on to have three children and nine grandchildren. He served as a law clerk for Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and then joined the Washington office of the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
Mr. Starr was considered brilliant, ambitious and deeply religious, part of the vanguard of a new generation of conservative legal minds determined to reshape the judiciary after years in which liberal jurists had dominated.
He went to work as chief of staff to Attorney General William French Smith in the Reagan administration and was then appointed by Reagan to the United States Court of Appeals for the District Circuit.
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