Robert Ray (prosecutor)

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. Before that he was Deputy Independent Counsel investigating former Secretary of Agriculture Michael Espy and before that Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He was briefly a candidate in the New Jersey United States Senate election, 2002.

As of 2006 he is a partner at the law firm of Kelley Drye in private practice.