Judge Webster currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Homeland Security Advisory Council. On July 1, 1991, Judge Webster was presented the Distinguished Intelligence Medal and on Jhe was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Security Medal. He is the recipient of the 2001 Justice Award of the American Judicature Society and the 2002 ABA Medal - the highest honor the ABA can bestow.
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Judge Webster is an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. During his service on the bench, Judge Webster was Chairman of the Judiciary Conference Advisory Committee on the Criminal Rules and was a member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Habeas Corpus and the Committee of Court Administration. Louis Bar Association, Judge Webster served as Chairman of the Corporation, Banking and Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, and is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. One of Judge Webster’s goals was to make the FBI a model for all law enforcement agencies in the United States in terms of professionalism and conformity with constitutional procedures.Ī member of the American Bar Association, the Council of the American Law Institute, the Order of the Coif, the Missouri Bar Integrated, and the Metropolitan St. He resigned on Februto become Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In 1970, Judge Webster was appointed a Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and in 1973 was elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. From 1964 to 1969, he was a member of the Missouri Board of Law Examiners. Louis law firm from 1949 to 1959, Judge Webster served as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri from 1960 to 1961. He served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy in World War II and again in the Korean War.Ī practicing attorney with a St. Judge Webster received his Juris Doctor degree from Washington University Law School, St. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts in 1947 where, in 1975, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Louis, Missouri and received his early education in Webster Groves near St. In this position he headed the Intelligence Community (all foreign intelligence agencies of the United States) and directed the Central Intelligence Agency until September 1, 1991. In September 1991, he joined the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP in its Washington, D.C. Webster was sworn in as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) on May 26, 1987.
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