Academy Fellows
Ken Starr
Dean Kenneth W. Starr received his B.A. from George Washington University in 1968 and M.A. from Brown University in 1969. He graduated from Duke Law School with a J.D. degree in 1973. In 2002, he published First Among Equals: The Supreme Court in American Life, to explain key decisions by the Supreme Court justices to the American people. As solicitor general of the United States from 1989 to 1993, Judge Starr argued 25 cases before the Supreme Court. He was appointed to serve as Independent Counsel for five investigations, including Whitewater, from August 1994 to October 1999.
Judge Starr has numerous professional affiliations, including having served as president of the Institute of Judicial Administration in New York and the Council for Court Excellence in Washington, D.C. Other Boards on which he serves or has served include Advocates International, American Law Institute, American Association of Law Schools, American Judicature Society, Supreme Court Historical Society, American Inns of Court Foundation, Institute for United States Studies, American University, Shenandoah University, and the American Bar Association Journal Board of Editors.
He has received a multitude of honors and awards including the J. Reuben Clark Law Society 2005 Distinguished Service Award, the 2004 Capital Book Award, the Jefferson Cup award from the FBI, the Edmund Randolph Award for Outstanding Service in the Department of Justice, and the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service.
Judge Starr was born on July 21, 1946, in Vernon, Texas, and raised in San Antonio. He and his wife Alice have three children and two grandchildren. They lived in McLean, Virginia from 1978 to 2004, when they moved to Malibu, California. He has volunteered many hours teaching in the inner city and assisting disadvantaged students in Washington, D.C. with summer internships, after school programs, and financial help for attending college.
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