Susan McDougal (born 1955 in Heidelberg, Germany) is one of the few people who served prison time as a result of the Whitewater controversy in the United States, though fifteen individuals were convicted of federal charges. She was born Susan Carol Henley, the daughter of James B. Henley and Laurette (Mathieu) Henley. Susan McDougal was married in 1976 to James B. McDougal, also of Little Rock, Arkansas.

Kenneth Winston Starr (born July 21, 1946) is an American lawyer and former judge who was appointed to the Office of the Independent Counsel to investigate the death of the deputy White House counsel Vince Foster and the Whitewater land transactions by President Bill Clinton. He later submitted to Congress the Starr Report, which led to Clinton's impeachment on charges arising from the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

David Hale is a former Arkansas municipal judge, a former Arkansas banker, Bill Clinton political supporter and a witness in the Whitewater scandal trials. He worked with Jim McDougal on $3 million in loans from a lending company he ran. He plead guilty and went to jail for conspiring to defraud the Small Business Administration. He was sentenced to two years and four months in prison. As part of his guilty plea, cooperate with Whitewater investigators.

James "Jim" Guy Tucker, Jr. (born June 12 1943) is a former governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas. Tucker resigned the governorship on July 16, 1996, after his conviction for fraud during the Whitewater scandal although the conviction was not directly related to that investigation of Bill and Hillary Clinton's real estate and related business dealings.

Janet Reno (born July 21, 1938) was the first female Attorney General of the United States (1993-2001). She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1993, and confirmed on March 11. She was the second longest serving Attorney General after William Wirt.

James B. (Jim) McDougal, a native of White County, Arkansas, and his wife, Susan McDougal (the former Susan Carol Hendley), were financial partners with Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton in the real estate venture that led to the Whitewater political scandal of the 1990s. Starting in 1982, McDougal operated Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan. On April 14, 1997, McDougal was convicted of eighteen felony counts of fraud and conspiracy charges.

Vincent Walker Foster, Jr. was a deputy White House counsel during the first term of President Bill Clinton, and also a law partner and personal acquaintance of Hillary Clinton. He was found dead in Fort Marcy Park off the George Washington Parkway in Virginia, outside Washington, D.C. His death was ruled a suicide by investigations conducted by the United States Park Police, the United States Congress, and Independent Counsels Robert B. Fiske and Kenneth Starr..

Susan Webber Wright (b. 1948) is a United States District Court judge presently serving as the chief judge of the Eastern District of Arkansas. She received national attention when she dismissed Paula Jones's sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton in 1998. Wright was a student of Clinton's in a class on admiralty law while at the University of Arkansas law school; she later challenged him on her grade.

Bruce R. Lindsey currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the William J. Clinton Foundation and splits his time between the Foundation's New York and Little Rock offices. He has been a long-time advisor to former President Bill Clinton. During the eight years of the Clinton Administration, he served as an Assistant to the President, Deputy White House Counsel, and Senior Advisor. During 1993, Mr.

Robert W. Ray (born c. 1960) is an American lawyer who from 1999 to 2002 served as the last head of the Office of the Independent Counsel, investigating and issuing the final reports on the Whitewater scandal, the White House travel office controversy, and the White House FBI files controversy.

Harry Z. Thomason, (born 1940), is an American film and television producer and director best known for the television series "Designing Women". Thomason and his wife Linda Bloodworth-Thomason are close friends of President Bill Clinton and U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and played a major role in President Clinton's election campaigns.

Christopher Ruddy is a conservative American journalist. He is known for his controversial writings about the death of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster. Ruddy is currently the CEO of NewsMax Media, an Internet media company he founded.

Robert Bishop Fiske, Jr. (born December 28, 1930 in New York City) is a prominent trial attorney and a partner with the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City. He was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1976 to 1980 after earlier having served as an assistant in the office from 1957 to 1961.

Christopher "Chris" Wade was a former Whitewater real estate broker. Chris Wade was the real estate broker for Jim McDougal and Bill Clinton for the Whitewater Development Corporation. He sold the lots for the Clintons and McDougals. He ended up buying some of the land from them. In 1985, Jim McDougal traded the few remaining Whitewater lots to Chris Wade for an airplane and the assumption of $35,000 in bank debt to 1st Ozark.

Bernard W. Nussbaum (born 1937) is an American attorney, most known for having been White House Counsel under Bill Clinton. Nussbaum graduated from Columbia College in 1958, and from Harvard Law School in 1961. He then became an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. He joined the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in 1966, about one year after the founding of the firm and is, as of 2006, still a partner in that firm.

Linda Thompson is an American attorney, filmmaker, and the founder of the American Justice Federation. In 1993, she quite her job as a lawyer in Indianapolis, Indiana to start the American Justice Federation, according to Snopes.com. The AJF is "a for-profit group that promotes pro-gun causes and various conspiracy theories through a shortwave radio program, a computer bulletin board and sales of its newsletter and videos." She first founded her computer BBS network, …