Board of Medicine revokes Massachusetts doctor’s right to renew her medical license after storming United States Capitol on January 6th

A Massachusetts doctor has been punished by the Board of Medicine for her actions on January 6th, 2021.

In a Final Decision & Order, the Board revoked Dr. Jacquelyn J. Starer’s right to renew her medical license after finding that she was among a crowd which stormed and breached the United States Capitol, and that she struck a Metropolitan Police Officer with her closed fist. Dr. Starer was first licensed to practice medicine in Massachusetts on July 26, 1983, until she entered into a Voluntary Agreement Not to Practice. She is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Public Health and General Preventive Medicine. She has subspecialty certification in Addiction Medicine.

According to the Department of Justice, in 2024, Starer was sentenced to nine months in prison, 24 months of supervised release, and ordered to pay $4,000 in restitution and fines by U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly. Starer previously pleaded guilty to an eight-count indictment, charging her with two felony counts of obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers.

In addition to the felonies, Starer pleaded guilty to six misdemeanor offenses, including entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.

 According to court documents, Starer traveled from Massachusetts to Washington, D.C, and attended the “Stop the Steal” rally at the Ellipse. After the rally, Starer made her way to the Capitol building and entered via the East Rotunda Doors at approximately 2:51 p.m. Starer then made her way into the Rotunda, where a group of Metropolitan Police Department and United States Capitol police officers formed a police line to protect the west entrance of the Capitol Rotunda from a crowd of rioters near former Speaker Pelosi’s office.

 At approximately 2:59 p.m., court documents say Starer moved through the crowd and to the front of the police line. Starer approached the officers, pushed up against another rioter with outstretched arms, and pointed her finger in the direction of the officers. Starer then grabbed the arm of the rioter with outstretched arms and pushed it down. She then turned to face the rioter and was pushed back by a police officer. Starer then struck the officer with her closed fist. Starer then moved away from the officers and stepped towards them again, moving her hands toward the police, yelling, “F— b—!”

The FBI arrested Starer on Dec. 20, 2022, in Ashland.