Carla Anderson Hills
Carla Anderson Hills ( born January 3, 1934 in Los Angeles, California) is an American high school teacher, politician and manager.
Biography
Bauministerin Trade Representative and the U.S. government
After school she studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford University and then at Stanford University, where she in 1955 with a Bachelor of Arts ( AB ) acquired. After that, she studied law at Yale Law School and graduated in 1958 with a Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ) from. In 1959 she was admitted to the bar in California and was 1962-1974 as a lawyer in the law firm Munger, Great, Hills & Ricker Hauser worked as a partner. In 1972, she was appointed to a professorship in addition to the University of California at Los Angeles; Since 1974 she is also the curator of the Pomona College. She is also a member of the American Law Institute and the American Bar Foundation (American Bar Foundation) since 1974.
In 1974 she was assistant to the U.S. Attorney General ( United States Attorney General ) Civil Law (Civil Division). On March 10, 1975 her appeal was made to the Minister of Housing and Urban Development ( Secretary of Housing and Urban Development ) by U.S. President Gerald Ford, whose cabinet she belonged until the end of Ford's term of office on 20 January 1977.
She then retired from politics and became a lawyer at the law firm Latham & Watkins, a law firm with approximately 1800 lawyers in twelve cities with headquarters in Los Angeles. In 1989 she was appointed by President George Bush as commercial agent of the United States again in the government and this was one until the end of Bush's term of office on 20 January 1993.
Activities in enterprises
Carla Hills retired in 1993 permanently from the government policy and then went into the private sector, where she was initially 1993-2000 board member of Chevron Corporation and at the same time since 1996 by Lucent Technologies. Between 2000 and 2003 she was also a board member of Chevron Texaco and 2001-2006, American International Group and Time Warner. At times, she was also a board member of American Airlines and IBM and is a member of the Board of Gilead Sciences since 2007.
She is also Deputy Chair of the Advisory Board on legal policy of the American Enterprise Institute, Vice-Chair of the International Advisory Board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Board of Trustees of the Council on Foreign Relations as well as several other institutes and foundations.
Carla Hills is married since 1958 with Roderick M. Hills, who was from 1975 to 1977 chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Appreciation
1975 was honored as Person of the Year Carla Hills by Time Magazine. However, this assessment was not specifically her person, but the American women in general. Representing were next to the then Minister nor Betty Ford, Ella T. Grasso, Barbara Jordan, Susie Sharp, Jill Conway, Billie Jean King, Susan Brownmiller, Addie L. Wyatt, Kathleen Byerly, Carol Sutton and Alison Cheek lifted.