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Anita Hill
Hill in 2018
Born
Anita Faye Hill

(1956-07-30)July 30, 1956(age 67)[1]
EducationOklahoma State University(BS)
Yale University(JD)
EmployerBrandeis University

Anita Faye Hill(born July 30, 1956) is an American lawyer, educator and author. She is a professor of social policy, law, and women's studies atBrandeis Universityand a faculty member of the university'sHeller School for Social Policy and Management.[2]She became a national figure in 1991 when she accused U.S. Supreme Court nomineeClarence Thomas,her supervisor at theUnited States Department of Educationand theEqual Employment Opportunity Commission,ofsexual harassment.

Early life and education

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Anita Hill was born to a family of farmers inLone Tree, Oklahoma,the youngest of Albert and Erma Hill's 13 children.[3][4]Her family came fromArkansas,where her maternal grandfather Henry Eliot and all of her great-grandparents had been born intoslavery.[5]Hill was raised in theBaptistfaith.[3]

Hill graduated from Morris High School,Oklahomain 1973, where she was classvaledictorian.[6]Hill received her bachelor's degree inpsychologyin 1977 fromOklahoma State University.In 1980, she earned herJuris DoctorfromYale Law SchoolinNew Haven,Connecticut.[7]

Early career

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Hill was admitted to the District of ColumbiaBarin 1980 and began her law career as an associate with theWashington, D.C.firm of Wald, Harkrader & Ross. In 1981, she became an attorney-adviser toClarence Thomas,who was then the Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education'sOffice for Civil Rights.When Thomas became chairman of the U.S.Equal Employment Opportunity Commission(EEOC) in 1982, Hill served as his assistant, leaving the job in 1983.[8]

Hill then became an assistant professor at theEvangelical ChristianO. W. Coburn School of LawatOral Roberts Universitywhere she taught from 1983 to 1986.[9]In 1986, she joined the faculty at theUniversity of Oklahoma College of Lawwhere she taught commercial law and contracts.[10][11]

In 1989, she became the first tenured African American professor at OU. She left the university in 1996 due to ongoing calls for her resignation that began after her 1991 testimony. In 1998, she became a visiting scholar atBrandeis Universityand, in 2015, a university professor at the school.[12]

Allegations of sexual harassment against Clarence Thomas

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Hill testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991

In 1991, PresidentGeorge H. W. BushnominatedClarence Thomas,a federalcircuit judge,to succeed retiring Associate Supreme Court JusticeThurgood Marshall.Senate hearings on hisconfirmationwere initially completed[13]with Thomas's good character being presented as a primary qualification for the high court because he had only been a judge for slightly more than one year.[14]There had been little organized opposition to Thomas's nomination, and his confirmation seemed assured[14]until a report of a private interview of Hill by theFBIwas leaked to the press.[13][15]The hearings were then reopened, and Hill was called to publicly testify.[13][15]

Hill said on October 11, 1991, in televised hearings that Thomas hadsexually harassedher while he was her supervisor at the Department of Education and theEEOC.[16]When questioned on why she followed Thomas to the second job after he had already allegedly harassed her, she said working in a reputable position within the civil rights field had been her ambition. The position was appealing enough to inhibit her from going back into private practice with her previous firm. She said that she only realized later in her life that the choice had represented poor judgment on her part, but that "at that time, it appeared that the sexual overtures... had ended."[4][17]

According to Hill, Thomas asked her out socially many times during her two years of employment as his assistant,[18]and after she declined his requests, he used work situations to discuss sexual subjects and push advances.[4][18]"He spoke about... such matters as women having sex with animals and films showing group sex or rape scenes," she said, adding that on several occasions Thomas graphically described "his own sexual prowess" and the details of his anatomy. Hill also recounted an instance in which Thomas examined a can of Coke on his desk and asked, "Who has put pubic hair on my Coke?"[4]During the hearing, Republican SenatorOrrin Hatchimplied that "Hill was working in tandem with 'slick lawyers' and interest groups bent on destroying Thomas's chances to join the court." Thomas said he had considered Hill a friend whom he had helped at every turn, so when accusations of harassment came from her they were particularly hurtful and he said, "I lost the belief that if I did my best, all would work out."[19]

Four female witnesses waited in the wings to support Hill's credibility, but they were not called,[15][20]due to what theLos Angeles Timesdescribed as a private, compromise deal between Republicans and theSenate Judiciary Committeechair, DemocratJoe Biden.[21]

Hill agreed to take apolygraphtest. While senators and other authorities observed that polygraph results cannot be relied upon and are inadmissible in courts, Hill's results did support her statements.[22]Thomas did not take a polygraph test. He made a vehement and complete denial, saying that he was being subjected to a "high-tech lynching for uppity blacks" by white liberals who were seeking to block a black conservative from taking a seat on the Supreme Court.[23][24]After extensive debate, theUnited States Senateconfirmed Thomas to the Supreme Court by a vote of 52–48, the narrowest margin since the 19th century.[20][25]

Members questioned Hill's credibility after the timeline of her events came into question.[15]They mentioned the time delay of ten years between the alleged behavior by Thomas and Hill's accusations, and observed that Hill had followed Thomas to a second job and later had personal contacts with Thomas, including giving him a ride to an airport—behavior which they said would be inexplicable if Hill's allegations were true.[18][10][15][26]Hill countered that she had come forward because she felt an obligation to share information on the character and actions of a person who was being considered for the Supreme Court.[15]She testified that after leaving the EEOC, she had had two "inconsequential" phone conversations with Thomas, and had seen him personally on two occasions, once to get a job reference and the second time when he made a public appearance in Oklahoma where she was teaching.[4]

Doubts about the veracity of Hill's 1991 testimony persisted among conservatives long after Thomas took his seat on the Court. They were furthered by right-wing magazineAmerican SpectatorwriterDavid Brockin his 1993 bookThe Real Anita Hill,[20]though he later recanted the claims he had made which he described in his book as "character assassination," and apologized to Hill.[27][28]After interviewing a number of women who alleged that Thomas had frequently subjected them to sexually explicit remarks,The Wall Street JournalreportersJane MayerandJill Abramsonwrote,Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas,a book that concluded that Thomas had lied during his confirmation process.[25][29]Richard Lacayo in his 1994 review of the book forTimemagazine remarked, however, that "Their book doesn't quite nail that conclusion."[20]In 2007, Kevin Merida, a co-author of another book on Thomas, remarked that what happened between Thomas and Hill was "ultimately unknowable" by others, but that it was clear that "one of them lied, period."[30][31]Writing in 2007, Neil Lewis ofThe New York Timesremarked that, "To this day, each side in the epic he-said, she-said dispute has its unmovable believers."[32]

In 2007, Thomas published his autobiography,My Grandfather's Son,in which he revisited the controversy, calling Hill his "most traitorous adversary", and writing thatpro-choiceliberals, who feared he would vote to overturnRoe v. Wadeif he were seated on the Supreme Court, used the scandal against him.[32]He described Hill as touchy and apt to overreact, and her work at the EEOC as mediocre.[32][33]He acknowledged that three other former EEOC employees had backed Hill's story, but said they had all left the agency on bad terms.[33]He also wrote that Hill "was a left-winger who'd never expressed any religious sentiments whatsoever... and the only reason why she'd held a job in the Reagan administration was because I'd given it to her."[34]Hill denied the accusations in anop-edinThe New York Timessaying she would not "stand by silently and allow [Justice Thomas], in his anger, to reinvent me."[35][36]

In October 2010, Thomas's wifeVirginia,a conservative activist, left a voicemail at Hill's office asking that Hill apologize for her 1991 testimony. Hill initially believed the call was a hoax and referred the matter to theBrandeis Universitycampus police who alerted theFBI.[24][37]After being informed that the call was indeed from Virginia Thomas, Hill told the media that she did not believe the message was meant to be conciliatory and said, "I testified truthfully about my experience and I stand by that testimony."[24]Virginia Thomas responded that the call had been intended as an "olive branch".[24][3]

Effects

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Shortly after the Thomas confirmation hearings, President George H. W. Bush dropped his opposition to a bill that gave harassment victims the right to seek federal damage awards, back pay, and reinstatement, and the law was passed by Congress.[38][39]One year later, harassment complaints filed with the EEOC were up 50 percent and public opinion had shifted in Hill's favor.[39]Private companies also started training programs to deter sexual harassment.[38]When journalistCinny Kennardasked Hill in 1991 if she would testify against Thomas all over again, Hill answered, "I'm not sure if I could have lived with myself if I had answered those questions any differently."[40]

The manner in which theSenate Judiciary Committeechallenged and dismissed Hill's accusations of sexual harassment angered female politicians and lawyers.[41]According to D.C. Congressional DelegateEleanor Holmes Norton,Hill's treatment by the panel was a contributing factor to the large number of womenelected to Congress in 1992."Women clearly went to the polls with the notion in mind that you had to have more women in Congress," she said.[35]In their anthology,All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave,editorsGloria T. Hull,Patricia Bell-Scott,andBarbara Smithdescribed black feminists mobilizing "a remarkable national response to the Anita Hill–Clarence Thomas controversy.[42]

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In 1992, a feminist group began a nationwide fundraising campaign and then obtained matching state funds to endow a professorship at theUniversity of Oklahoma College of Lawin honor of Hill.[11][43]Conservative Oklahoma state legislators reacted by demanding Hill's resignation from the university, then introducing a bill to prohibit the university from accepting donations from out-of-state residents, and finally attempting to pass legislation to close down the law school.[11]Elmer Zinn Million, a local activist, compared Hill toLee Harvey Oswald,the assassin of President Kennedy.[11][43]Certain officials at the university attempted to revoke Hill's tenure.[44]After five years of pressure, Hill resigned.[11]The University of Oklahoma Law School defunded the Anita F. Hill professorship in May 1999, without the position having ever been filled.[45]

On April 25, 2019, thepresidential campaignteam forJoe Bidenfor the2020 United States presidential electiondisclosed that he had called Hill to express "his regret for what she endured" in his role as the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, presiding over the Thomas confirmation hearings. Hill said the call from Biden left her feeling "deeply unsatisfied".[46][47]On June 13, 2019, Hill clarified that she did not consider Biden's actions disqualifying, and would be open to voting for him.[48]In May 2020, Hill argued thatsexual assault allegationsmade againstDonald Trumpas well as thesexual assault allegationagainst Biden should be investigated and their results "made available to the public."[49]

On September 5, 2020, it was reported that Hill had vowed to vote for Biden and to work with him on gender issues.[50]

Continued work and advocacy

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Hill in 2014 speaking at Harvard Law School

Hill continued to teach at the University of Oklahoma, though she spent two years as a visiting professor in California. She resigned her post in October 1996 and finished her final semester of teaching there.[51]In her final semester, she taught a law school seminar on civil rights. An endowed chair was created in her name, but was later defunded without ever having been filled.[45]

Hill accepted a position as a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of Social Change atUniversity of California, Berkeleyin January 1997,[52]but soon joined the faculty ofBrandeis University—first at the Women's Studies Program, later moving to theHeller School for Social Policy and Management.In 2011, she also took a counsel position with the Civil Rights & Employment Practice group of the plaintiffs' law firmCohen Milstein.[9]

Over the years, Hill has provided commentary on gender and race issues on national television programs, including60 Minutes,Face the Nation,andMeet the Press.[3][9]She has been a speaker on the topic of commercial law as well as race and women's rights.[9]She is also the author of articles that have been published inThe New York TimesandNewsweek[3][9]and has contributed to many scholarly and legal publications in the areas ofinternational commercial law,bankruptcy,andcivil rights.[9][53]

In 1995, Hill co-editedRace, Gender and Power in America: The Legacy of the Hill-Thomas Hearingswith Emma Coleman Jordan.[3][54]In 1997 Hill published her autobiography,Speaking Truth to Power,[55]in which she chronicled her role in the Clarence Thomas confirmation controversy[3][5]and wrote that creating a better society had been a motivating force in her life.[56]She contributed the piece "The Nature of the Beast: Sexual Harassment" to the 2003 anthologySisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium,edited byRobin Morgan.[57]In 2011, Hill published her second book,Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home,which focuses on the sub-prime lending crisis that resulted in the foreclosure of many homes owned by African-Americans.[15][58]She calls for a new understanding about the importance of a home and its place in theAmerican Dream.[5]On March 26, 2015, the Brandeis Board of Trustees unanimously voted to recognize Hill with a promotion to Private University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's Studies.[59]

On December 16, 2017, the Commission on Sexual Harassment and Advancing Equality in the Workplace was formed, selecting Hill to lead its charge against sexual harassment in the entertainment industry. The new initiative was spearheaded by co-chair of the Nike FoundationMaria Eitel,venture capitalistFreada Kapor Klein,LucasfilmPresidentKathleen Kennedyand talent attorneyNina Shaw.[60]The report found not only a saddening prevalence of continued bias but also stark differences in how varying demographics perceived discrimination and harassment.[61]

In September 2018, Hill wrote an op-ed inThe New York Timesregarding sexual assault allegations made byChristine Blasey Fordduring theBrett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination.[62]On November 8, 2018, Anita Hill spoke at the USC Dornsife's event, "From Social Movement to Social Impact: Putting an End to Sexual Harassment in the Workplace".[63][64]

Writings

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External videos
video iconBooknotesinterview with Hill onSpeaking Truth to Power,November 23, 1997,C-SPAN(58:21)

In 1994, Hill wrote a tribute toThurgood Marshall,the first African American Supreme Court Justice who preceded Clarence Thomas, titled "A Tribute to Thurgood Marshall: A Man Who Broke with Tradition on Issues of Race and Gender".[65]She outlined Marshall's contributions to the principles of equality as a judge and how his work has affected the lives of African Americans, specifically African American women.

On October 20, 1998, Hill published the bookSpeaking Truth to Power.Throughout much of the book she gives details on her side of the sexual harassment controversy, and her professional relationship withClarence Thomas.Aside from that, she also provides a glimpse of what her personal life was like all the way from her childhood days growing up inOklahomato her position as a law professor.[55][page needed]

Hill became a proponent for women's rights and feminism. This can be seen through the chapter she wrote in the 2007 bookWomen and leadership: the state of play and strategies for change.[66]She wrote about women judges and why, in her opinion, they play such a large role in balancing the judicial system.[67]She argues that since women and men have different life experiences, ways of thinking, and histories, both are needed for a balanced court system. She writes that in order for the best law system to be created in the United States, all people need the ability to be represented.

In 2011, Hill's second book,Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Homewas published.[68]She discusses the relationship between the home and the American Dream. She also exposes the inequalities within gender and race and home ownership. She argues that inclusive democracy is more important than debates about legal rights. She uses her own history and history of other African American women such asNannie Helen Burroughs,in order to strengthen her argument for reimagining equality altogether.

On September 28, 2021, Hill published the bookBelieving: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence.[69][70][71]

Awards and recognition

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Hill received the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession's "Women of Achievement" award in 1992.[72]In 2005, Hill was selected as aFletcher FoundationFellow. In 2008 she was awarded the Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award[73]by theFord Hall Forum.She also serves on the board of trustees forSouthern Vermont CollegeinBennington, Vermont.[74]Her opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991 is listed as No. 69 in American Rhetoric's Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century (listed by rank).[75][76]She was inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame in 1993.[77]On January 7, 2017, Hill was inducted as an honorary member ofZeta Phi Betasorority at their National Executive Board Meeting in Dallas, Texas.[78]The Wing's Washington, D.C. location has a phone booth dedicated to Hill.[79]

Minor planet6486 Anitahill,discovered byEleanor Helin,is named in her honor. The official naming citation was published by theMinor Planet Centeron November 8, 2019 (M.P.C.117229).[80]

Honorary doctorates

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See also

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References

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