Anita Hill
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Anita Hill and Charles Ogletree at Brandeis University in September 2014
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| Born |
Anita Faye Hill July 30, 1956 Lone Tree, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Residence | Massachusetts |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Attorney |
| Alma mater |
Oklahoma State University Yale University |
| Occupation | Attorney, professor |
| Years active | 1983 – present |
| Employer | Brandeis University |
| Known for | Testimony against Clarence Thomas |
| Board member of | Board of Trustees, Southern Vermont College |
| Awards |
Fletcher Foundation Fellowship; Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award |
Anita Faye Hill (born July 30, 1956) is an American attorney and academic. She is a University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's Studies at Brandeis University and a faculty member of Brandeis' Heller School for Social Policy and Management. She became a national figure in 1991 when she accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, her boss at the U.S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, of sexual harassment.
Hill was born in Lone Tree, Oklahoma, the youngest of the 13 children of Albert and Erma Hill, who were farmers. Her family came from Arkansas, where her great-grandparents and her maternal grandfather, Henry Eliot, were born into slavery. Hill was raised in the Baptist faith.
After graduating as valedictorian from Morris High School, Oklahoma she enrolled at Oklahoma State University, receiving a bachelor's degree with honors in psychology in 1977. She went on to Yale Law School, obtaining her Juris Doctor degree with honors in 1980.
She was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1980 and began her law career as an associate with the Washington, D.C. firm of Wald, Harkrader & Ross. In 1981, she became an attorney-adviser to Clarence Thomas who was then the Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. When Thomas became Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 1982, Hill went along to serve as his assistant, leaving the job in 1983.
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