William K. Kelley

William K. Kelley served as Deputy Counsel to United States President George W. Bush. He worked as a deputy to White House Counsel Harriet Miers prior to her departure from the White House, and Counsel Fred Fielding, who succeeded Miers. [Froomkin, Dan. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/administration/whbriefing/2005stafflistb.html July 1, 2005 White House Office Staff List - By Salary] "Washington Post" 2005. Retrieved April 17, 2007.]

Kelley is a professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School who recently took a leave of absence to work at the White House. [Kelley, William K. [http://law.nd.edu/people/faculty-and-administration/teaching-and-research-faculty/william-k-kelley] Notre Dame Law School Faculty Profile. Retrieved March 21, 2008.] He returned to Notre Dame in the 2007-2008 academic year. He earned his B.A. from Marquette University in 1984 and his J.D. from Harvard in 1987. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1990, Professor Kelley clerked for the Honorable Kenneth W. Starr on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Washington, D.C. (1987-88), as well as for Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia (1988-89).

Kelley worked with the Office of the Special Counsel when Kenneth Starr was investigating the Whitewater / Monica Lewinsky incidents, writing the brief for the case.

United States Attorneys

Kelley was one of several Bush administration White House staff members that participated in approving the dismissal of eight United States Attorneys in 2006. Questions about the criteria for the dismissals led to Congressional hearings. [Solomon, John and Eggen, Dan. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/administration/whbriefing/2005stafflistb.html White House Backed U.S. Attorney Firings, Officials Say] "Washington Post." March 3, 2007. Retrieved April 17, 2007.] On March 21 2007 the House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, approved issuing subpoenas to Kelley, along with four other senior White house officials, to testify about the dismissals. [ Associated Press. [http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070322/POLITICS/703220301/1022 Text of motion approving subpoenas of White House officials] "Detroit News" Thursday, March 22, 2007. Retrieved April 17, 2007.]

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* [http://media.www.hlrecord.org/media/storage/paper609/news/2008/09/18/News/Goldsmith.Feldman.And.Notre.Dame.Dean.Debate.Separation.Of.Powers-3437345.shtml Discussion on Constitutional separation of powers between Kelley and Harvard's Noah Feldman and Jack Goldsmith] in the "Harvard Law Record"