A detailed look at Anita Hill, featuring in-depth facts.

• Anita Hill started her professional career initially as an associate with the Washington, D.C. firm of Wald, Harkrader & Ross. In 1981, she became an attorney-adviser to Clarence Thomas, who was then the Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.
• Thomas subsequently became chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 1982, Hill went along to serve as his assistant, serving for 2 years until 1983 when she left the job.
• Hill then became an assistant professor at the Evangelical Christian O. W. Coburn School of Law at Oral Roberts University where she taught for 3 years from 1983 to 1986. In 1986, she joined the faculty at the University of Oklahoma College of Law where she taught commercial law and contracts.
• Hill caught the national attention in 1991 when she accused Clarence Thomas, with whom she worked for three years of sexual harassment while he was running for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.
• On October 11, 1991, in televised hearings, she told that Thomas had sexually harassed her while he was her supervisor at the Department of Education and the EEOC. On the veracity of HIll’s 1991 testimony, American Spectator writer David Brock also wrote, “The Real Anita Hill”(1993) so did Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson who wrote “Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas”.
• In 2007, Thomas published his autobiography, “My Grandfather’s Son”, in which he revisited the controversy, calling Hill his “most traitorous adversary”.
• On response to the 1991 controversy, Hill was mentioned in the 1992 Sonic Youth song “Youth Against Fascism”, in The X-Files episode aired in 1996, “Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man”, a film titled “Strange Justice” and was even subject of the 2013 documentary film, “Anita” by director Freida Lee Mock. Hill was portrayed by actress Kerry Washington in the 2016 HBO film, “Confirmation”.
• Hill continued to teach at the University of Oklahoma, though she spent two years as a visiting professor in California, where she resigned her post in October 1996 and finished her final semester of teaching there where she taught a law school seminar on civil rights.
• In January 1997, she accepted a position as a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of California, Berkeley but soon joined the faculty of Brandeis University and later moved to the Heller School for Social Policy and Management.

• Hill has provided commentary on gender and race issues on national television programs, including 60 Minutes, Face the Nation, and Meet the Press over years and has been a speaker on the topic of commercial law as well as race and women’s rights. She is also the author of articles that have been published in The New York Times and Newsweek that have covered the topics of international commercial law, bankruptcy, and civil rights.
• In 1995, Hill co-edited “Race, Gender and Power in America: The Legacy of the Hill-Thomas Hearings” with Emma Coleman Jordan, and two years later in 1997, she published her autobiography, “Speaking Truth to Power” where she mentioned about having created a better society that has been motivating force in her life for past years.
• In 2011, Hill published her second book titled “Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home”. On December 16, 2017, Hill was selected to lead a charge against sexual harassment in the entertainment industry by the Commission on Sexual Harassment and Advancing Equality in the Workplace. Hill even wrote an op-ed in The New York Times regarding sexual assault allegations made by Christine Blasey Ford during the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination in September 2018.
• On September 5, 2020, Hill again made headlines after she confirmed that Hill wanted to vote for Joe Biden against Donald Trump in the 2020 election and even wanted to work with him on gender issues despite their troubled history dating nearly 3 decades.