Roderick M. Hills 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

Drexel Burnham Lambert

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 and then at the law firm of Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine

Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine

Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine was a white-shoe New York law firm. It was founded in 1929 by General William "Wild Bill" Donovan, often called the Father of the CIA. The firm dissolved in 1998. Its notable antitrust cases include a series of lawsuits involving American Cyanamid in the 1960s...

. In 1962, he founded the law firm of Munger, Tolles, Hills, and Rickershauser (now Munger, Tolles & Olson

Munger, Tolles & Olson

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) along with six other lawyers. During his career he also served as a partner in the Washington law firm of Latham & Watkins

Latham & Watkins

Latham & Watkins LLP is a global law firm, one of the largest in the world. Latham currently employs approximately 2,000 attorneys in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The firm was started in Los Angeles in 1934 and has extensive Californian roots, but its largest office is now...

, and as the chief executive officer of Peabody Coal. Since 1996 he has been a partner at the law firm of Hills & Stern. Since 1984 he has also served as Chairman of Hills Enterprises, Ltd. (formerly The Manchester Group, Ltd.).

Roderick Hills got his LL.B. at Stanford Law School

Stanford Law School

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 in 1955, following which he served as Law Clerk to Justice Stanley F. Reed, Supreme Court of the United States

Supreme Court of the United States

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, 1955-57. He is married to Carla Anderson Hills

Carla Anderson Hills

Carla Anderson Hills is an American lawyer and a public figure. She served as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Gerald Ford administration, and as U.S. Trade Representative...

. His son Roderick Hills, Jr. is a law professor at the New York University School of Law

New York University School of Law

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