William H. Webster

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP

William Webster is a senior partner at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP’s Washington office and is actively involved in the firm’s international corporate banking and administrative law practices. Prior to joining Milbank, Judge Webster served as the Director of Central Intelligence (1987-1991) overseeing all of the foreign intelligence agencies of the United States. Earlier he served as the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1978-1987) and before that a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and judge of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri through the 1970s.

He has received numerous honorary degrees and awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1991) and the National Security Medal (1991), the Justice Award of the American Judicature Society (2001) and its highest honor, the ABA Medal (2002). Judge Webster has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America and has also received NASA’s Distinguished Public Service Medal for his service to the families of the crew of Space Shuttle Columbia. Judge Webster graduated from Amherst College and received his Juris Doctor from Washington University Law School.