HOUSTON, TX. (THECOUNT) — Kenneth Starr, the Reagan judicial appointee and Solicitor General under George H.W. Bush who also served as Independent Counsel, President and Chancellor of Baylor University and Dean of the Pepperdine School of Law, has died. He was 76.

Starr had a distinguished career in academia, the law and public service.

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After leaving Baylor, Ken Starr was Of Counsel to The Lanier Law Firm, where he continued to practice appellate law. He also taught courses in constitutional law, negotiation and religious liberty plus authored several books and served as a commentator for Fox News.

Starr died on September 13, 2022 at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston of complications from surgery.

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