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William H. Kennedy III is an American lawyer from Arkansas.

Law career

He served as a senior partner in the Rose Law Firm of Little Rock, Arkansas, with Hillary Clinton where he focused on commercial, corporate, real estate, and banking law.[1]

Clinton Administration

From 1993 until 1995, he served as an associate counsel to President Bill Clinton before returning to Little Rock.[2] Two other Rose Law Firm partners, Vince Foster and Webb Hubbell, also joined the Clinton administration, but Kennedy was the only one to return to Little Rock without a scandal.[3]

On July 20, 1993, Kennedy and Craig Livingstone went to the Fairfax Hospital where he positively identified the body of Vince Foster, his friend and White House Counsel who had committed suicide.[4][5]

In March 1994, it was revealed that Kennedy had failed to pay Social Security taxes for his nanny. Clinton chief of staff Mack McLarty and Lloyd Cutler relieved Kennedy of some of his duties as Associate White House Counsel including reviewing tax-compliance matters or security clearances.[6]

In December 1995 the US Senate Special Whitewater Committee, which was investigating Bill Clinton and Madison Guaranty, subpoenaed notes taken by Kennedy during a meeting at Williams & Connolly on November 5, 1993 with David E. Kendall, Bernard Nussbaum, Bruce Lindsey, and other lawyers for Clinton.[7][8] Kennedy asserted attorney–client privilege as a reason not to hand over the notes. However the White House eventually handed over the notes sought by the Senate.[9]

In 2001 Kennedy represented Charles Wilfred Morgan, who received a federal pardon from President Clinton after having been convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine in the 1980s.[10]

In 2001 President Clinton appointed Kennedy to the board of directors of the Student Loan Marketing Association, commonly known as Sallie Mae.[11] Kennedy was a member[when?] of the Dean's Executive Advisory Board and the Arkansas Executive forum of the University of Arkansas Walton College of Business Administration.[11] He was voted Attorney of the Year[when?] by VOCALS, a pro bono legal services organization in Arkansas.[11] He was also president of the Downtown Kiwanis Club of Little Rock.[2]

Family

His father, William H. Kennedy Jr. (1917–1991), a former World War II Marine Corps officer and aide to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was the first Arkansan to become president of the American Bankers Association in 1981.[12]

Kennedy was married to Leslie Gail until late 1994.[13]

References

  1. ^ Wednesday, John Henry; Jan. 25; Read, 2006 11:54 Am 1 Min. "Bill Kennedy Takes General Counsel Post With Cooper Communities". Arkansas Business. Retrieved 2021-11-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ a b "Bill Kennedy Takes General Counsel Post With Cooper Communities". 2006-01-25. Retrieved 2014-05-09.
  3. ^ "Victim of circumstance". 1998-07-27. Retrieved 2014-05-09.
  4. ^ "White House, friends puzzled by apparent suicide of aide". Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2022-06-06.
  5. ^ "Clinton Orders Probe Into Aide's Death : White House: Deputy Counsel Vince Foster's office is sealed prior to search by federal agents. Officials call his apparent suicide 'inexplicable.'". Los Angeles Times. 1993-07-22. Retrieved 2022-06-06.
  6. ^ "Clinton Aide Is Penalized in Tax Dispute : White House: Associate Counsel William H. Kennedy III is relieved of some duties. He had failed to pay Social Security levies for a nanny". Los Angeles Times. 1994-03-24. Retrieved 2022-06-06.
  7. ^ Novak, Robert D. (1995-12-21). "GOVERNMENT LAWYERS, PRIVATE MATTERS". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-06-06.
  8. ^ "THE KENNEDY NOTES". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-06-06.
  9. ^ "THE KENNEDY NOTES". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-06-06.
  10. ^ Kuntz, Phil; Freedman, Alix; Harwood, John; Fields, Gary (2001-02-07). "Connected Democrats Won Pardons From Clinton; Hearings Gear Up". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  11. ^ a b c "President Clinton Appoints William H. Kennedy III to the Board of Directors Of the Student Loan Marketing Association, A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of USA Education". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2014-05-09.
  12. ^ "William H. Kennedy Jr.: chairman and CEO, National Bank of Commerce Pine Bluff, Arkansas". Retrieved 2014-05-09.
  13. ^ Novak, Robert D. (1999-07-08). "`Filegate' Lives on". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-06-06.
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