INDEPENDENT COUNSELS
DURING REAGAN ADMINISTRATION
Appointee Date Independent
Counsel
Raymond
J. Donovan 1985-1987 Leon Silverman (also special prosecutor
during
original 1981-82 investigation
of Raymond
Donovan)
Edwin Meese III 1984 Jacob A. Stein
Michael Deaver 1986-1989 Whitney North Seymour, Jr.
Theodore B. Olson 1986-1988 James C. McKay and Alexia Morrison
Franklyn C. (Lyn)
Nofziger 1987-1989 James C. McKay
(including Edwin Meese III)
Iran/Contra
See Record Group 449
(Records of Independent Counsels for all except Iran/Contra)