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American judge (born 1947)

For other people named William Sessions, see William Sessions (disambiguation).

William Kenneth Sessions III^[1] (born February 9, 1947)^[2] is serving as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont and has served as the Vice Chair and eventually as Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission.

He was confirmed on October 21, 2009 as Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission, and served until December 22, 2010.^[3]

Education and career

Sessions was educated at Middlebury College where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1969.

He earned a Juris Doctor in 1972 from the George Washington University Law School.

William k sessions iii biography templates

Sessions served as a United States Army First Lieutenant. He was a law clerk for Judge Hilton Dier in Addison County District Court in 1973. He later worked for the Addison County Public Defender before entering private p