Roderick M. Hills Explained

Roderick M. Hills
Office1:Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
President1:Gerald Ford
Term Start1:October 28, 1975
Term End1:April 10, 1977
Predecessor1:Irving M. Pollack
Successor1:Harold M. Williams
Birth Name:Roderick Maltman Hills
Birth Date:9 March 1931
Death Place:Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Party:Republican
Children:4
Education:Stanford University (BA, LLB)

Roderick Maltman Hills (March 9, 1931 – October 29, 2014) served as chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission between 1975 and 1977. Later he worked at the investment bank of Drexel Burnham Lambert and then at the law firm of Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine.[1]

Biography

Hills was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Whittier, California, where he played high school football under the same coach as former President Richard M. Nixon. A janitor's son, Hills was the first in his family to go to college.[2] [3]

Hills received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University and then his Bachelor of Laws at Stanford Law School in 1955,[4] following which he served as law clerk to Justice Stanley F. Reed, Supreme Court of the United States, during 1955 to 1957.

In 1962, he founded the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Hills (now Munger, Tolles & Olson) along with six other lawyers.[5] He was also Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the US-ASEAN Business Council.[6] During his career he also served as a founding name partner with his wife at Latham, Watkins & Hills, the DC branch of Latham & Watkins, as the chief executive officer of Peabody Coal and—in the early 1980s—as the Washington-based head of a merchant banking arm of Sears that was known as Sears World Trade.[7] [8] He had been, since 1996, a partner at the law firm of Hills & Stern. From 1984 until his death in 2014, he served as chairman of Hills Enterprises, Ltd. (formerly The Manchester Group, Ltd.).[9]

Personal life

He was married to former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Carla Anderson Hills from 1958 until his death. His son, Roderick M. Hills Jr., is a law professor at the New York University School of Law, and his daughter, Laura Hills, attended Stanford Law School.[10] [11]

Hills died on October 29, 2014, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore at age 83 of heart failure.[12] [13]

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Notes and References

  1. https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEED91031F93BA15757C0A96F948260 BUSINESS PEOPLE; A Former S.E.C. Chairman Gets Donovan, Leisure Post
  2. http://members.calbar.ca.gov/fal/Member/Detail/27634 Profile
  3. http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/findingaid/hillsrpapers.asp Profile
  4. http://www.nndb.com/people/757/000122391/ Roderick M. Hills profile
  5. http://www.mto.com/about Munger, Tolles & Olson website
  6. News: Schudel . Matt . Roderick M. Hills, Ford White House official who led SEC from 1975 to 1977, dies at 83 . December 1, 2018 . Washington Post . November 2, 2014.
  7. https://www.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Hillsbio0802.pdf
  8. http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20141030/NEWS07/141039979/roderick-hills-ex-sears-exec-who-aimed-to-pare-sec-regulation-dies Notice of death of Roderick M. Hills
  9. http://www.academyofdiplomacy.org/programs/RHills.bio.pdf Profile
  10. http://its.law.nyu.edu/faculty/profiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=cv.main&personID=26990 Roderick M. Hills profile
  11. News: Hills . Laura . Remembrances: Roderick Mailman Hills, March 19, 1931 to October 2, 2014 . December 2, 2018 . Stanford Lawyer Magazine . Stanford Law School . May 29, 2015.
  12. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/01/business/roderick-m-hills-counsel-to-gerald-ford-dies-at-83.html Obituary
  13. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-30/roderick-m-hills-who-aimed-to-pare-sec-regulation-dies-at-83.html Notice of death of Roderick Hills