Carla Anderson Hills

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Person.png Carla Anderson Hills   SourcewatchRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(lawyer, deep state functionary)
Carla A. Hills official portrait.jpg
BornCarla Anderson
January 3, 1934
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
NationalityUS
Alma materStanford University, St Hilda's College (Oxford), Yale University
Children4
SpouseRoderick Hills
Member ofCenter for Strategic and International Studies, Gilead Sciences, Trilateral Commission
PartyRepublican
US lawyer and politician. Primary negotiator of NAFTA. Attended Bilderberg/2002. Chair of the Council on Foreign Relations, and on the board of a large number of deep state organizations.

Employment.png Chair of the Council on Foreign Relations

In office
June 2007 - July 1, 2017
With Robert Rubin

Employment.png United States Trade Representative

In office
February 6, 1989 - January 20, 1993

Carla Anderson Hills is a US politician and corporate lawyer who attended the 2002 Bilderberg meeting. A trade representative under George HW Bush where she was the primary negotiator of NAFTA, she later sat on the board of a number of deep state think-tanks, including as Chair of the Council on Foreign Relations from 2007 until 2017.

Education

After attending school, she studied first at St Hilda's College at the University of Oxford and then at Stanford University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1955. She then studied law at Yale Law School, graduating in 1958.

Career

She was admitted to the bar in California in 1959 and worked as a lawyer at the law firm Munger, Tolles, Hills & Rickershauser as a partner between 1962 and 1974. in 1972 she was also appointed professor at the University of California in Los Angeles; she has also been the curator of Pomona College since 1974. She has also been a member of the American Law Institute and the American Bar Foundation since 1974.[1]

In 1974, she became assistant to the United States Attorney General for Civil Law (Civil Division). On March 10, 1975, she was appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by US President Gerald Ford, whose cabinet she was a member of until the end of Ford's term on January 20, 1977.[2]

She then retired from politics and became a lawyer at the law firm Latham & Watkins, a law firm with about 1800 lawyers in twelve cities with headquarters in Los Angeles. In 1989, she was reappointed to the government by President George HW Bush as the United States Trade Representative and was a member of the government until the end of Bush's term on January 20, 1993.[1]

An advocate of free trade, she was the primary U.S. negotiator of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).[1][3]

Board positions

Carla Hills retired from government politics for good in 1993 and then went into the private sector, where she was initially a board member of Chevron Corporation from 1993 to 2000 (later Chevron Texaco) and at the same time from Lucent Technologies since 1996. She was also a board member of American International Group, Time Warner, American Airlines, Coca-Cola, IBM, JPMorgan Chase, and has been a member of the board of Gilead Sciences.[2]

In addition, she was Deputy Chairwoman of the Legal Policy Advisory Board of the American Enterprise Institute, Deputy Chairwoman of the International Advisory Board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Council on Foreign Relations, International Crisis Group, Brookings Institute[1], trustee of the Rand Corporation 1982-1987, Trilateral Commission, Partnership for a Secure America, Initiative for Global Development, Urban Institute, Asia Society, Institute for International Economics, and US Asia Pacific Council.[1]

Marriage

Carla Hills was married to Roderick M. Hills from 1958 until his death at the end of October 2014, who was chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from 1975 to 1977.

 

Event Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/200230 May 20022 June 2002US
Virginia
Chantilly
Westfields Marriott
The 50th Bilderberg, held at Chantilly, Virginia.
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