Peter Barton Hutt

Peter has been a partner of Washington, D.C. based law firm, Covington & Burling, specializing in food and drug law, since 1968, except for the period from 1971 to 1975 when he served as Chief Counsel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

He has served on the boards of several publicly traded biotechnology companies and is a member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. Peter has received numerous honors, including being named by the National Law Journal as one of the 40 best healthcare attorneys in the United States.

Peter received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale University; an L.L.B. from Harvard Law School; and an L.L.M. from New York University.