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Carla Hills

Carla Anderson Hills
Carla Anderson Hills at the 21st Annual CAF Conference (37109768555) (cropped).jpg
Chair of the Council on Foreign Relations
Assumed office
June 30, 2007
Serving with Robert Rubin
President Richard Haass
Preceded by Peter Peterson
10th United States Trade Representative
In office
February 6, 1989 – January 20, 1993
President George H. W. Bush
Preceded by Clay Yeutter
Succeeded by Mickey Kantor
5th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
In office
March 10, 1975 – January 20, 1977
President Gerald Ford
Preceded by James Lynn
Succeeded by Patricia Harris
20th United States Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division
In office
1973–1975
President Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Preceded by Harlington Wood Jr.
Succeeded by Rex Lee
Personal details
Born Carla Anderson
(1934-01-03) January 3, 1934 (age 83)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Roderick Hills
Children 4
Education Stanford University (BA)
St Hilda's College, Oxford
Yale University (JD)

Carla Anderson Hills (born January 3, 1934) is an American lawyer and a public figure. She served as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Gerald Ford administration, and as U.S. Trade Representative. She was the first woman to serve as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the third woman to serve as a cabinet officer.

Born Carla Anderson in Los Angeles, she received her B.A. degree from Stanford University, after studying at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She earned her LL.B. degree from Yale Law School in 1958 and married Roderick M. Hills the same year.

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 in Los Angeles. In 1972, she was an adjunct professor at UCLA. 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 a United States Assistant Attorney General heading the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice before being named as the secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Elliot L. Richardson sought to appoint her as assistant U.S. Attorney General in 1973, but he resigned shortly thereafter during the Watergate scandal. The offer was renewed by his successor, William B. Saxbe, in 1974.


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