Ken Starr Appointed President of Baylor University

Ken Starr, who rose to prominence in the late 1990s as the lead attorney against President Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, is expected to take another executive position this week, this time in the much tamer field of academia as president of Baylor University, the world’s largest Baptist university. With the exception of his involvement in the constitutional defense of Proposition 8 in California, Starr’s post-Clinton career had taken a turn to academia; he had in a dean position at Pepperdine Law School for the past six years before the confirmation of his new appointment leaked.

Sources are telling Politico that the decision is a done deal, and the school’s website just officially announced his appointment. The new job will take Starr from the Malibu campus to Starr’s native state of Texas. Starr won Time’s Man of the Year title in 1998 for his work on the Clinton impeachment, though his career already had significant highlights, such as an appointment on the DC circuit of the US Court of Appeals and, later, a position as US Solicitor General under President George H. W. Bush.

Starr replaces John M. Lilley, who, according to the school’s website, “was fired as Baylor’s president in 2008.”

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