WASHINGTON, DC, July 27, 2023 - Peter Hutt has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.

An accomplished attorney with years of professional experience to his credit, Mr. Hutt is Senior Counsel for Covington & Burling LLP, where he specializes in Food and Drug Law. He also teaches a three-credit course on food and drug law each year at Harvard Law School. Mr. Hutt served as Chief Counsel of the Food and Drug Administration and co-authored five editions of Food and Drug Law, the leading casebook on the subject.

Mr. Hutt earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University, a Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School, and a Master of Laws in Food and Drug Law from New York University Law School. He has served on numerous Boards of Directors and advisory committees, and is the only member of the National Academy of Medicine who was elected because of his legal work in the private practice of law. While serving as FDA Chief Counsel, he transformed FDA from reliance on enforcement in the courts to the creative use of rulemaking to implement FDA policy. For this, he has been called the Father of Modern Food and Drug Law and the Dean of the Food and Drug Bar.

For his outstanding body of work, he twice received FDA's highest award, a Distinguished Service Award from the Department of Health, and the Underwood Prescott Award from MIT. More recently, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from FDA, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Foundation for Biomedical Research, and has been named a Leading Food and Drug Lawyer.

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