She was a law clerk to Spottswood William Robinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1975 to 1976.
Hochberg was a special assistant to the Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in 1976.
From 1987 to 1990 she was in private practice with Cole, Schotz, Bernstein, Meisel and Forman in Hackensack.
[2] In 1994, Hochberg was named United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, serving until 1999.
[citation needed] Hochberg and her husband Mark, a heart surgeon, have two adult children, Alyssa and Asher.