Starr was elected unanimously to lead Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and will be introduced to the campus of some 14,000 students on Tuesday, according to Monday’s announcement.

“I am pleased that Baylor University has named an individual of Dean Starr’s sterling reputation, character and ability to lead the university into a future that is made all the more promising by his presence,” former president George H. W. Bush said in a statement Monday. “Ken was one of the very finest public servants with whom I had the privilege to work as President of the United States. When he represented the United States before the Supreme Court, the American people had a tireless advocate who not only represented their values and interests – but shared them.”

Starr is a longtime member of McLean Bible Church in McLean, Va., a conservative, non-denominational evangelical congregation in the Washington suburbs.

The world’s largest Baptist institution of higher learning will be led by the man whose investigation of a 1980s Arkansas real-estate deal gone bad nearly brought down the nation’s last Baptist president in 1998, with Congress’ failed attempt to impeach President Bill Clinton.

Starr succeeds John Lilley, who was fired for failing to “bring the Baylor family together” in July 2008. Lilley’s two-year tenure followed the 10-year presidency of Robert Sloan, which was marked by discord over the university’s future, specifically Baylor 2012, a decade-long strategy plan. David Garland, dean of Baylor’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary, has been interim president since August 2008.

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