David E. Kendall

David Evan Kendall (born 1944) is an American attorney, a graduate of Yale Law School and Oxford University, who clerked with Supreme Court Justice Byron White, worked as associate counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and has been a partner at Williams & Connolly LLP of Washington, DC since 1981, where he has provided legal counsel to individuals and corporations on high-profile business and political matters. He is well known for his roles in the Coker v. Georgia, Gilmore v. Utah, and other death penalty cases; in the MGM et al. v. Grokster, et al. and Tasini et al v. AOL copyright and contract cases; as well as for various First Amendment cases, including for The Washington Post. In addition, he is known for having advised President Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal, and representing him during his impeachment trial. He served as defense attorney in the successful defense of retired General David Petraeus, and currently represents the former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, including in the matter of her use of a private email server while serving as U.S. Secretary of State.

Kendall was born at Camp Atterbury near Edinburgh, Indiana, in 1944, and grew up in Sheridan, Indiana. While a student at Wabash College, during the Freedom Summer of 1964, Kendall worked with the Council of Federated Organizations to register voters in Mississippi, where he was the roommate of murdered civil rights worker Andrew Goodman during the last week of Goodman's life. Kendall was arrested several times, and convicted once, in Mississippi during the summer of 1964.

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