14 Facts About Carla Hills

Carla Hills was the first woman to hold each of those posts and the third female ever to serve in a presidential cabinet.

Carla Hills was admitted to the California bar in 1959, and served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Los Angeles from 1959 to 1961.

An authority on federal practice and anti-trust law, Mrs Carla Hills wrote of Federal Civil Practice and Antitrust Advisor.

Carla Hills's is a former president of the National Association of Women Lawyers.

Carla Hills's 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.

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President Ford later commented in his autobiography, A Time to Heal, that Carla Hills was an exceptionally effective advocate for HUD, often appealing the budgetary decisions of James Lynn, Ford's OMB chief, to the President and winning most of the time.

From 1978 through 1989, Carla Hills was again a practicing attorney, and served as chairwoman of the board of trustees of the Urban Institute from 1983 through 1988.

Carla Hills's initially went after Japan, Brazil and India, although the Bush administration later decided Japan had changed its ways.

In 2000, Carla Hills was awarded the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, which is the highest honor awarded to non-citizens by the Mexican government.

Carla Hills stepped down from Time Warner, Inc with Ted Turner in 2006.

Carla Hills's was one of the founders of the Forum for International Policy where she is a trustee.

In July 2022, Hills helped found a group of U S business and policy leaders who share the goal of constructively engaging with China in order to improve U S -China relations.

In 2005, Carla Hills participated in the Task Force on the Future of North America.

In 1993, Hills received the U S Senator John Heinz Award for Greatest Public Service by an Elected or Appointed Official, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.