
Earlier in his career, Mr. Spence was Assistant Corporation Counsel and General Counsel of the Department of Health and Hospitals of the City of Boston and Associate Chief Counsel for Enforcement at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Mr. Spence also taught Food and Drug Law at Boston College and Howard University Law Schools, Marshall-Wythe School of Law of The College of William, and Mary and Benjamin Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University. He also taught Environmental Policy, Public Health, and Education Practice and the Law to graduate and undergraduate students at a number of institutions. With Capitol Hill experience as counsel of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research and in the regulated industries, as Corporate Counsel for Research and Business Development and Intellectual Property at The Campbell Soup Co., Mr. Spence has a broadly gauged insight of regulatory affairs, administrative rulemaking and procedures, legislation, and enforcement and compliance activities of the federal government. Mr. Spence graduated with an A.B. degree, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, in history with minors in philosophy and science from Fisk University, where he was an Exchange Student to Dartmouth College, General University Honors, a lettered member of the University Varsity Baseball Team, Vice President of the Student Government and a Participant in the Harvard Yale Columbia Intensive Summers Study Program at Yale University. Mr. Spence received his Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School.