Top FDA Lawyer Resigns Two Days After Appointment Announced (2)

The US Food and Drug Administration’s top lawyer resigned on Thursday, two days after her appointment was announced, the agency posted on the social media site X.

Before serving as the FDA’s chief counsel, Hilary Perkins worked for the Department of Justice’s consumer protection division. She joined the DOJ in 2019 during President Donald Trump’s first administration, according to her LinkedIn profile.

Perkins’s appointment was recently criticized by Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, who posted on X that Marty Makary, Trump’s nominee for FDA commissioner, was “attempting to sneak a Biden abortion lawyer into top ...