Former Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Rachael Hill Honig is leaving her $300,00-a-year compliance job at Rutgers University to become the new general counsel at the University of Rochester.
“Her background at a large, multifaceted research institution, combined with her extensive experience in the US Attorney’s Office and her strong grasp of the legal and regulatory environment in higher education and health care, will immediately bring great value to our institution,” said Sarah Mangelsdorf, the Rochester University president.
Honig served as First Assistant U.S. Attorney during Donald Trump’s first term, and then became Acting U.S. Attorney until Joe Biden nominated Philip Sellinger to become the state’s top federal prosecutor. She spent about 20 years at the U.S. Attorney’s Office as a career prosecutor.
Between stints with the Department of Justice, Honig served as in-house litigation counsel at Celgene, a New Jersey-based pharmaceutical company, for 17 months. During her time there, Celgene settled a $239 million securities fraud action, and worked on a settlement over allegations that the company blocked generic, more affordable cancer treatment drugs. Celgene faced considerable criticism for aggressive price hikes on a life-saving cancer drug, Revlimid.
She is set to start her new job in Rochester on August 1. The University of Rochester has about 12,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
