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- Anita Hill is a University Professor at Brandeis University, Heller School for Social Policy and Management. She is also Counsel to Cohen, Milstein, Sellers & Toll, a plaintiff's law firm. The youngest of 13 children from a farm in Oklahoma, Hill is a graduate of Oklahoma State University and Yale Law School. She began her career in private practice in Washington, D.C. and 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.
Hill is the recipient of numerous awards, grants and honorary degrees. Her professional and civic contributions include chairing the Human Rights Law Committee of the International Bar Association, and membership on the Board of Directors of the National Women's Law Center and Lawyers for Civil Rights.- IMDb mini biography by: The Hollywood Commission Official Site Bio
- Received her undergraduate degree from the Oklahoma State University in 1977 and her Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1980. Admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1980.
- Both she and her mother are the youngest of 13 children.
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