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The Hon. William S. Sessions
The Honorable William S. Sessions is a partner in the Washington, D. C. office of Holland & Knight LLP. In 1969, he was selected to head the Government Operations Section of the Criminal Division of the U. S. Justice Department, Washington, D. C. and in 1971 was confirmed as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas. In 1974, he became a United States District Judge in the Western District of Texas, and in 1980 became Chief Judge of that court. In 1982, Judge Sessions presided over trials following the assassination of John H. Wood, Jr., the first federal judge assassinated in the United States. In 1987 President Ronald Regan appointed him Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
In 1997 Judge Sessions chaired the newly-formed American Bar Association's (ABA) Committee on Independence of the Judiciary and in 2002 served as Honorary Co-Chair of the ABA Commission on the 21st Century Judiciary. Judge Sessions served on the Texas Commission on Judicial Efficiency (1995); Texas Commission on a Representative Student Body (1998); and as Vice-Chairman of the Texas Governor's Task Force on Homeland Security (2001). He continues to serve on six initiatives of the Constitution Project, including the Death Penalty Initiative, and on the Innocence Project of the National Capital Region and the Innocence Commission for Virginia. Recently, Judge Sessions agreed to serve as a Signatory for The Center for the Study of the Presidency.
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