ôHills, Carla Anderson1934╨lawyer and public officialBorn in Los Angeles on January 3, 1934, Carla Anderson attended private schools and in 1951 entered Stanford University, where she was an outstanding tennis player as well as student. After graduating in 1955 she entered Yale Law School, from which she received her law degree in 1958. In September 1958 she married Roderick M. Hills. After her admission to the California bar in 1959 she worked for two years as an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles. In 1962 she and her husband and others formed the law firm of Munger, Tolles, Hills, & Rickershauser, in which she gained experience in antitrust and securities cases. She was a coauthor of Federal Civil Practice, 1961, and the editor of Antitrust Advisor, 1971.She was president of the Los Angeles chapter of the Federal Bar Association in 1963 and of the National Association of Women Lawyers in 1965. She was admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court in the latter year. In 1972 she was adjunct professor of antitrust law at the University of California at Los Angeles for a semester. In the autumn of 1973 Hills was offered the post of assistant U.S. attorney general, but the offer became void when the attorney general, Elliot L. Richardson, resigned in the ╥Saturday night massacre╙ episode of the Watergate affair. In February 1974, however, she was again offered the post by Richardson╒s successor, William B. Saxbe, and in April she took office as assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department╒s civil division. In February 1975 she was nominated by President Gerald R. Ford to be secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. She was confirmed, over some questions regarding her lack of experience in the field, and sworn in in March. She retained the post until the accession of a Democratic administration in January 1977, when she was succeeded by Patricia Roberts Harris.In 1978 she opened a Washington, D.C., branch of the Los Angeles law firm Latham & Watkins and remained there until 1986 when she became a partner with Weil, Gotshal & Manges. In 1989 she was appointed U.S. Trade Representative for the Bush administration. In this position she focused on breaking down the Japanese trade barriers affecting US satellites, supercomputers and semiconductors, as well as successfully urging the European community to phase out farm subsidies which undercut American and other foreign farmers. In 1993 she founded her consulting firm, Hills and Company, and also teamed up with other members of the Bush administration, Brent Scowcroft, Lawrence Eagleburger, and Robert Gates, to form the Forum for International Policy. Nstyl ` ! ¬ 5¬ 5¬ 8 !I ├ !I ┘ !I ≤ !I !I 5¬ !I [ 5¬ \ !I ç !I ▐ ₧ !I á 5¬ í !I link ` HYPR ç ₧
