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IvUBERT Li. WEINBERG
Special to the Rappahannock News
At the annual meeting of the American Bar Association, held last week in “the other Washington”, the Association’s President Robert E. Hirshon conferred on Rappahannock resident William H. Webster the highest award of the legal profession of the United States. Known simply as “The ABA Medal”, the award recognizes exceptionally distinguished service in the legal profession.
Mr. Webster is the sixtyfourth recipient of the Medal since the award was created in 1929. Mr. Webster has previously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, conferred by President George H. Bush in 1991, the Thomas Jefferson Award in Law conferred by the University of Virginia in 1986, and the First Annual Patrick V. Murphy Award conferred by the Police Foundation in 1985, among many other honors.
Mr. Webster served as director of the FBI from 1978 to 1987, and thereafter as director of the CIA until 1991. Mr. Webster’s remarkable success in protecting the American people in those positions was shaped by his prior judicial experience in the federal courts.
He served for fourteen years as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, following three years service as a trial judge of the United States District court
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