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Former U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins regains law license
Rollins, who resigned as U.S. Attorney amid ethics concerns, had her license suspended for not paying annual fees earlier this year.
Rachael Rollins, the former U.S. Attorney who resigned last year amid a storm of ethics issues, regained her law license Tuesday, according to court records.
Rollins was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1999, but faced an administrative suspension for not paying registration fees earlier this year. She was listed alongside dozens of other lawyers in a motion by the Board of Bar Overseers. Their fees had to be paid by Feb. 9, and the request to suspend those that did not pay took effect on Feb. 20.
She is also moving forward with the next stage of her career, an apparent attempt to put the controversies of her tenure as the state’s top federal prosecutor behind her. Rollins landed a new job at Roxbury Community College as a Special Projects Administrator, RCC officials announced in a memo to faculty in late January.
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The part-time position will see Rollins helping to create a program that serves formerly incarcerated people, with a particular emphasis on women of color. RCC Executive Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs Joyce Taylor Gibson touted Rollins’ experience and work implementing criminal justice reforms in her memo.
It was a commitment to these progressive reforms that launched Rollins to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office in 2018. She became U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts in 2022 after being nominated by President Joe Biden and receiving a tie-breaking vote in the Senate from Vice President Kamala Harris.
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But in 2023, investigative reports by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel revealed allegations of serious ethical violations. Rollins served as an unofficial campaign advisor to Ricardo Arroyo, the former Boston City Council member who ran to replace Rollins as Suffolk DA, according to the reports. She was accused of lying under oath about leaking information to reporters and trying to create a public impression that the federal government was investigating Arroyo’s opponent for corruption.
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