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Who appointed Ken Starr into United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit?

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Kenneth Winston Starr was an American lawyer who served as a United States circuit judge and the 39th United States Solicitor General. From 1994 to 1998, he was most known for leading the Whitewater investigation investigating members of the Clinton administration.

On July 13, 1983, President Ronald Reagan nominated Starr to fill a vacancy on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit left by the retirement of  Judge George MacKinnon. 
The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary held hearings on Starr’s nomination on July 22, 1983. 
On August 8, 1983, Starr’s nomination was returned to President Reagan per protocol. 
On September 13, 1983, Starr’s candidacy was resubmitted, and his nomination was reported by the U.S. 

Starr was the head of Pepperdine University’s Law School. From June 2010 to May 2016, he was president and chancellor of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and the Louise L. Morrison chair of constitutional law at Baylor Law School.

On May 26, 2016, Baylor University’s board of regents announced that Starr’s tenure as university president would end on May 31, 2016, following an investigation into Starr’s mishandling of several sexual assaults at the school.

 

He recently died in September 2022.

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