William S. Sessions

(1930- ) lived in Kearney, Buffalo County. Lawyer, appointed in 1971 as U.S. Attorney for the western district of Texas, was chief judge for the same district, served as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for over five years, investigated charges of discrimination against African-Americans and Hispanics within the FBI. Consult Kearney /NE/ Daily Hub, July 24, 1987, pp. 1, 6 and Current Biography (1988) 518-521 and Alan Axelrod and Charles Phillips, Cops, Crooks and Criminologists: An International Biographical Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Facts on File, 1996) 246.

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