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Jeff
Senger is the Deputy Chief Counsel of the Food and Drug Administration. As
the senior career lawyer at the FDA, he reviews regulations, guidance documents,
and warning letters issued by FDA; oversees FDA-related litigation; and provides
legal advice on complex food and drug questions for the FDA and the Department
of Health and Human Services. He is a member of a Food and Drug Law Institute
Advisory Board and has spoken on FDA issues for numerous organizations around
the country.
He began his career as a law clerk for a United States District Court judge and then spent seventeen years at the Department of Justice. He first served as an Attorney General’s Honor Program lawyer in the Civil Rights Division, bringing discrimination cases nationwide. He then prosecuted felony criminal cases in the District of Columbia as a Special Assistant United States Attorney. He has served as lead counsel in numerous civil and criminal trials before juries and judges in federal and state courts, and argued cases in the United States Circuit Courts of Appeals. He also worked as Senior Counsel in the Office of the Associate Attorney General, where he assisted in overseeing the work of more than 2000 lawyers, including specific responsibility for the office that provides counsel and legal representation to the FDA.
An award-winning author, he wrote a book entitled Federal Dispute Resolution (Wiley 2003) and numerous law review articles. He has taught trial advocacy, mediation, and negotiation at Harvard Law School, and he is an elected member of the American Bar Foundation and the American Law Institute. He is a member of the D.C. Circuit Judicial Conference, has testified as an expert witness before the United States Congress, has served as a federal mediator, and has spoken on behalf of the United States government on five continents. He is an honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.