Dr. Anita Hill

Dr. Anita Hill

Brandeis University Professor of Law, Social Policy & Women's and Gender Studies & Chair of the Hollywood Commission

The youngest of 13 children from a farm in rural Oklahoma, Anita Hill received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1980. She began her career in private practice in Washington, D.C. Before becoming a law professor, she worked at the U. S. Education Department and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In 1989, Hill became the first African American to be tenured at the University of Oklahoma, College of Law, where she taught contracts and commercial law. She has made presentations to hundreds of business, professional, academic and civic organizations in the United States and abroad.

Recent News

Anita Hill: Business leaders must commit fully to diversity ‘for the sake of their own longevity’