Judge Alice Hill to Leave Court for Obama Administration Post
Friday, March 20, 2009
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alice Hill yesterday confirmed she is leaving the bench June 12 to go to Washington, D.C. to become counselor to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, her former law school classmate Janet Napolitano.
her new role, which does not require Senate confirmation, will involve work on special projects and assisting Napolitano in carrying out her job.
Hill attended law school at her father’s alma mater, and after graduating clerked one year for U.S. District Judge Joseph H. Young in Baltimore while her husband worked on his doctorate at Johns Hopkins.
The couple then moved to Paris, where Starr taught French and comparative literature and Hill became an associate in international law with a French law firm.
Hill and Starr returned to California in 1985 when Star was offered a tenured position at USC, and Hill joined Morrison & Foerster’s corporate department as an associate, earning admission to the State Bar the next year.
Quite a lib bio, her association with Nappy says it all.