William Webster, the only person to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency and, very briefly, the first head of the U.S. accounting oversight board, has died. He was 101.

His family announced his death in a statement that called him an “extraordinary man” who “spent a lifetime fighting to protect his country and its precious rule of law.”

Webster and his first wife, Drusilla Lane Webster, who died in 1984, had three children. He married Lynda Jo Clugston in 1990.

Webster was appointed a federal judge by Richard Nixon, FBI director by Jimmy Carter and CIA director by Ronald Reagan. George H.W. Bush kept him on at the CIA until his retirement in 1991. Throughout his career, he preferred to be addressed as “Judge.”

In 2002, the U.S. Securities and Exc

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