Hill, Eve L.

Eve L. Hill

Distinguished Retired Faculty

Eve L. Hill, Distinguished Retired Faculty

Education

• BA, magna cum laude, Sweet Briar College
• JD, cum laude, Cornell Law School

Background

Professor Hill is the Executive Director of the Disability Rights Legal Center, a national non-profit disability rights advocacy group located on the campus of Loyola Law School and hosting Loyola Law School law student externs. Professor Hill is a nationally recognized disability rights expert, advocate, mediator, teacher, and author. Before joining the Center in 1998, Professor Hill was supervisory attorney in the Disability Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division, US Department of Justice, where she worked on national implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act through enforcement, mediation, and building code certification. Prior to that, she was an attorney with Pierson Semmes & Bemis, (also in Washington, DC) and a volunteer mediator with the District of Columbia Superior Court.

Professional Memberships and Activities

• State Bar of California Council on Access and Fairness
• Chancery Club
• Co-Chair, U.S. Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board Courthouse Access Advisory Committee
• Commissioner, American Bar Association Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law
• Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles Board of Governors