A Guide to the Robert W. Ray Papers, 1994-2001
A Collection in
Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives
Collection Number 010
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Robert W. Ray Papers 1994-2001, MS 010, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia
Biographical/Historical Information
Robert William Ray was born on April 4, 1960, in Frankfurt,
Germany, the son of a colonel in the U.S. Army. An honors
graduate of both Princeton University (1982), and Washington
and Lee University School of Law (1985), he served as a law
clerk to the late Frank X. Altimari, Second Circuit Judge. He
began his career as a federal prosecutor in February, 1989,
when he was hired by then-United States Attorney Rudolph W.
Giuliani of the Southern District of New York. As an Assistant
United States Attorney from the Southern District of New York,
Organized and Violent Crime Unit, he was detailed by United
States Attorney Mary Jo White to the Office of Independent
Counsel in September of 1995. He served successively as Chief
Associate Independent Counsel, Counselor to the Independent
Counsel, and Deputy Independent Counsel. In October 1999, Ray
replaced Kenneth W. Starr as independent counsel in the
investigation of President William Jefferson Clinton and
Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Scope and Content Information
Ray presented this small group of papers to his alma mater,
Washington and Lee University School of Law, around the time
of his speaking engagement there in April 2001. The materials
all relate to his work as Deputy Independent Counsel and
Independent Counsel investigating President
William J.
Clinton.