page_title: Ken Starr
section_title: Independent counsel
hierarchical_section_title: Ken Starr / Independent counsel
caption_attribution_description: English: Independent-Counsel-Office-Group (circa 1990s). Ken Starr, Brett Kavanaugh, Alex Azar, and Rod Rosenstein are featured. Part of a WhiteHouse.gov slide show, "A Remarkable Career in Photos: Judge Kavanaugh to Testify Before the Senate"
context_page_description: Kenneth Winston Starr is an American lawyer who served as a United States circuit judge and 39th solicitor general of the United States. He is best known for heading an investigation of members of the Clinton administration, known as the Whitewater controversy.
  Starr served as a federal Court of Appeals judge and as solicitor general for George H. W. Bush. He received the most public attention for his tenure as independent counsel while Bill Clinton was U.S. president. Starr was initially appointed to investigate the suicide of deputy White House counsel Vince Foster and the Whitewater real estate investments of Bill Clinton. The three-judge panel charged with administering the Ethics in Government Act later expanded the inquiry into numerous areas including suspected perjury about Bill Clinton's sexual activity with Monica Lewinsky. After more than four years of investigation, Starr filed the Starr Report, which alleged that Bill Clinton lied about the existence of the affair during a sworn deposition. The allegation led to the impeachment of Bill Clinton and the five-year suspension of Clinton's law license.
  Starr served as the dean of the Pepperdine University School of Law.
caption: Starr with Brett Kavanaugh and Alex Azar in the 1990s
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