Anita Hill

Anita Hill is an American lawyer and academic who became a national figure in 1991 when she accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, while he was in the running for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Thomas was her supervisor at the United States Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, whom she accused in front of the world catching national attention.

Hill is also a faculty member of Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management and a university professor of social policy, law, and women’s studies.

Hill has also released her book, “Speaking Truth to Power,” in which she recounts her part in the Clarence Thomas confirmation fight and how it influenced people to live in a better society. Hill received the “Women of Achievement” award from the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession in 1992.

In 1993, she was inducted into the Oklahoma Women’s Hall of Fame. Hill announced on September 5, 2020 that, considering their fraught relationship dating back nearly three decades, she will vote for Joe Biden against Donald Trump in the 2020 election and cooperate with him on gender issues.

What is Anita Hill’s claim to fame?

Attorney and professor at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.

Known for accusing Clarence Thomas, a candidate for the United States Supreme Court, of sexual assault.

Anita Hill was born in the United States.

Anita Hill was born in the United States on July 30, 1956, in Lone Tree, Oklahoma. Anita Faye Hill is her given name. Her country of origin is the United States of America. Hill is of African-American origin, and her zodiac sign is Leo.

Hill was born into a farming family in Lone Tree, Oklahoma, as the youngest of thirteen children to Albert and Erma Hill (mother). Her maternal grandfather, Henry Eliot, and all of her great-grandparents were born into slavery in Arkansas at the time, and Anita was raised in the Baptist faith with her 12 older siblings.

Hill graduated from Morris High School in Morris, Oklahoma, and then went on to Oklahoma State University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology with honors in 1977. She went on to Yale Law School after graduation, where she earned her Juris Doctor degree with honors in 1980. At the age of 24, she was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar and started her legal career as an associate with the Wald, Harkrader & Ross law firm in Washington, D.C.

Highlights of Anita Hill’s Career: Clarence Thomas Controversy

Anita Hill began her legal career as an associate at the Wald, Harkrader & Ross law firm in Washington, D.C. Clarence Thomas, then the Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, hired her as an attorney-adviser in 1981.

In 1982, Thomas was named chairman of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and Hill joined him as his assistant for two years, before she left in 1983.

From 1983 to 1986, Hill worked as an assistant professor at Oral Roberts University’s Evangelical Christian O. W. Coburn School of Law, where she taught for three years. She entered the University of Oklahoma College of Law faculty in 1986, where she taught business law and contracts.

Hill gained national attention in 1991 when she accused Clarence Thomas of sexual assault when he was running for a seat on the United States Supreme Court, with whom she had served for three years.

She testified in televised hearings on October 11, 1991, that Thomas had sexually abused her when he was her boss at the Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. On the veracity of Hill’s 1991 testimony, American Spectator writer David Brock, as well as Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson, published “Strange Justice: The Sale of Clarence Thomas” in 1993.

Thomas revisited the controversy in his autobiography, “My Grandfather’s Uncle,” published in 2007, in which he called Hill his “most traitorous adversary.”

Hill was mentioned in the 1992 Sonic Youth song “Youth Against Fascism,” in The X-Files episode “Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man,” a film titled “Strange Justice,” and was also the topic of the 2013 documentary film “Anita” by director Freida Lee Mock in response to the 1991 controversy. In the 2016 HBO film “Confirmation,” actress Kerry Washington played Hill.

Hill continued to teach at the University of Oklahoma after a two-year stint as a visiting professor in California, where she resigned in October 1996 and completed her final semester of teaching there, where she taught a law school civil rights seminar.

She accepted a position as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Social Change in January 1997, but soon after joined the Brandeis University faculty and later moved to the Heller School for Social Policy and Management.

Hill has appeared on national television programs such as 60 Minutes, Face the Country, and Meet the Press to comment on gender and race issues, and has spoken on the topics of commercial law, race, and women’s rights. She’s also the author of papers on international commercial law, bankruptcy, and civil rights that have appeared in The New York Times and Newsweek.

Hill co-edited “Race, Gender, and Power in America: The Aftermath of the Hill-Thomas Hearings” with Emma Coleman Jordan in 1995, and two years later, in 1997, she published her autobiography, “Speaking Truth to Power,” in which she explored how building a better world has been a guiding force in her life for years.

Hill’s second novel, “Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home,” was published in 2011. The Commission on Sexual Assault and Advancing Equality in the Workplace chose Hill to lead a charge against sexual harassment in the entertainment industry on December 16, 2017. Hill also wrote an op-ed in The New York Times about Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual harassment claims during Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court appointment in September 2018.

Despite their troubled relationship dating back nearly three decades, Hill made headlines again on September 5, 2020, when she announced that she wanted to vote for Joe Biden against Donald Trump in the 2020 election and also wanted to work with him on gender issues.

Honors and Awards

In 1992, she was honored by the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession with the “Women of Achievement” award.

In 1993, she was inducted into the Oklahoma Women’s Hall of Fame.

In 2008, he received the Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award.

In 2017, at the National Executive Board Meeting of Zeta Phi Beta sorority in Dallas, Texas, I was inducted as an honorary member.

Wesleyan University bestowed an honorary LLM degree on me in 2018.

Who is Anita Hill Married to?

Anita Hill hasn’t got married yet. Hill has spent most of her time spreading awareness on issues of sexual harassment, gender violence, gender discrimination, women’s rights, civil rights, and many more that have left an impact on every field. Though she hasn’t got married yet, she had been linked with many people back then including popular politician Joe Biden with whom she had a troubled history dating back nearly three decades.

During the 1991 hearings of Thomas, Biden was serving as the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee who oversaw the confirmation hearing of then-US Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Almost after 30 years of the incident, Hill now has expressed her want to vote for Joe Biden against Donald Trump in the 2020 election and also expressed her want to work with him on gender issues.

 What is the Net Worth of Anita Hill?

Anita Hill has quite good earnings from her professional career as an academic and lawyer who has been in the field for over 40 years now. Having started her career since 1980, as an assistant Hill has come a long way becoming one of the prominent faces and voices in the topics of international commercial law, bankruptcy, civil rights, and more especially the women’s rights.

With all of her works for years, also being a professor at several universities has definitely helped Hill to amass a healthy fortune which is estimated to be around $2.5 million.

How Tall is Anita Hill?

Anita Hill is a beautiful Black woman in her mid-60s who has empowered all the world with her bold and fearless personality. Hills stands tall with a height of 5ft. 6inch. while her body weighs around 65kg. She has a dark complexion with black hair and brown eyes.

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