- Carla Anderson Hills
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name =Carla Anderson Hills
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order1 =5th Chairwoman of the Council on Foreign Relations
Serving alongside:Robert E. Rubin
term_start1 =2007
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president1 =Richard N. Haass
predecessor1 =Peter George Peterson
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order2 =5th
office2 =United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
term_start2 =March 10 ,1975
term_end2 =January 20 ,1977
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president2 =Gerald Ford
predecessor2 =James Thomas Lynn
successor2 =Patricia Roberts Harris
order3 =10thUnited States Trade Representative
term_start3 =1989
term_end3 =1993
deputy =
president3 =George H. W. Bush
predecessor3 =Clayton Keith Yeutter
successor3 =Mickey Kantor
birth_date = Birth date and age|1934|1|3|mf=y
birth_place =Los Angeles, California
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footnotes =|Carla Anderson Hills (born
January 3 ,1934 ) is an American lawyer and public figure. She served asUnited States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in theGerald Ford administration, and asU.S. Trade Representative . She was the first woman to serve as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.She was the third woman to serve as a Cabinet officer in a U.S. Presidential Administration.
Biography
Born in
Los Angeles , she received her B.A. degree fromStanford University , after studying atOxford University . She earned her LL.B. degree fromYale University Law School in 1958. Born Carla Anderson, she marriedRoderick M. Hills the same year.Career
Mrs. Hills was admitted to the California Bar in 1959, and served as an Assistant
United States Attorney in Los Angeles from 1959 to 1961. From 1962 to 1974, she was a partner at Munger, Tolles, Hills, and Rickershauser of Los Angeles. In 1972, she was an adjunct professor atUCLA .An authority on federal practice and anti-trust law, Mrs. Hills wrote of "Federal Civil Practice" and "Antitrust Advisor". She is a former president of the
National Association of Women Lawyers .She was an
United States Assistant Attorney General heading the Civil Division of theU.S. Department of Justice before being named HUD Secretary. She was first offered an appointment as assistant U.S. Attorney General byElliot L. Richardson in 1973, but he resigned shortly thereafter during theWatergate scandal . The offer was renewed by his successor,William B. Saxbe , in 1974.Hills' lack of relevant experience was somewhat controversial during the appointment hearings for her nomination to head the
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development .From 1978 through 1989 she was again a practicing attorney, and was chairman of the Urban Institute from 1983 through 1988. Hills served as U.S. Trade Representative from 1989 to 1993 under President
George Herbert Walker Bush . An advocate offree trade , she was the primary U.S. negotiator of theNorth American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Since 1993 she has worked as a consultant and public speaker through Hills & Company International Consultants, which gives advice on investment, trade and risk issues abroad.She was one of the founders of the Forum for International Policy, and she is on the Board of Directors of
American International Group andTime Warner .In 2008, Yale University granted her an honorary degree. [ [http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2008/05/26/ap-state-ct/d90tckgo9.txt Yale University gives ex-Beatle honorary doctorate in music] "RepublicanAmerican",
2008-05-26 , retrieved2008-05-26 ]Affiliations
* Co-Chairman,
Council on Foreign Relations [ [http://www.cfr.org/about/board.php Board of Directors] , Council on Foreign Relations, retrieved2008-05-26 ]
* Chair,National Committee on United States-China Relations [ [http://www.ncuscr.org/who-we-are/board-directors] , National Committee on United States-China Relations, retrieved2008-07-04 ]
* Executive Committee member,Trilateral Commission
* Executive Committee member, Institute for International Economics (IIE), now thePeterson Institute
* Director,ChevronTexaco , since 1993.
* Director,American International Group , Inc.
* Director,Lucent Technologies
* Director,AOL Time Warner , Inc.
* Co-Chair, Inter-American Dialogue [ [http://www.thedialogue.org/membership/board.asp Inter-American Dialogue BoD] , dead as of2008-05-26 [http://web.archive.org/web/20070506141441/http://www.thedialogue.org/membership/board.asp archive.org] , version of2007-05-06 retrieved2008-05-26 ]
* Trustee, Forum for International Policy
* US Board Member,International Crisis Group .
* Advisory Board Member,Partnership for a Secure America
* Counselor and Trustee,Center for Strategic and International Studies References
External links
* [http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blhillscarla.htm Hills] at about.com
* [http://www.theglobalist.com/AuthorBiography.aspx?AuthorId=26 Author biography]
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