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Ken Starr ¢ Ken Starr is an American lawyer who has also been a federal judge and U.S. Solicitor General. ¢ Former President and Chancellor of Baylor University * Held the Louise L. Morrison Chair of Constitutional Law at Baylor University Law School. ¢ He carried out a controversial investigation of members of the Clinton administration. ¢ Starr served as a federal Court of Appeals judge and as solicitor general for George H. W. Bush. * He received the most publicity for his tenure as independent counsel while Bill Clinton was U.S. president. ¢ The three-judge panel charged with administering the Independent Counsel Act later expanded the inquiry into numerous areas including an extramarital affair that Bill Clinton had with Monica Lewinsky. ¢ After several years of investigation, Starr filed the Starr Report, which alleged that Bill Clinton had lied about the existence of the affair during a sworn deposition. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030148