Background
Hight, B. Boyd was born on February 15, 1939 in Lumberton, North Carolina, United States. Son of Boyd B. and Mary Lou (Lennon) Hight.
Hight, B. Boyd was born on February 15, 1939 in Lumberton, North Carolina, United States. Son of Boyd B. and Mary Lou (Lennon) Hight.
Duke University (Bachelor of Arts, 1960). Yale University (Bachelor of Laws, 1966). University of Stockholm, Sweden (Dipl. in Comp.
Law, 1967).
Worked at O'Melveny & Myers LLP (Los Angeles, California) specializing in General Civil Litigation, Appellate Practice, and Criminal Trials Practice in all State and Federal Courts. Administrative; Antitrust. Banking; Bankruptcy; Commercial.
Communications; Construction. Corporation and Corporate Financing. Environmental; Immigration and Naturalization.
Insurance Coverage Defense. Intellectual Property. International Business.
Labor and Employment. Employment Benefits; Media and Entertainment. Municipal, Municipal Zoning and Municipal Finance.
Natural Resources; Oil and Gas. Patent, Trademark, Copyright and Unfair Competition. Probate, Trusts and Estate Planning.
Public Utilities; Real Estate. Securities; and Tax Law. Admitted to the bar, 1967, California.
1981, District of Columbia. 1977, United States. Supreme Court. Order of the Coif. Member, Board of Editors, Yale Law Journal, 1964-1966.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Transportation and Telecommunications, 1979-1981. Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Santa Fe International Corporation, 1985-1989. O'Melveny & Myers LLP, founded over 110 years ago on January 2, 1885, is the oldest law firm in Los Angeles.
Since that time, we have grown from two attorneys in two rooms specializing in the local concerns of a frontier community to a firm of more than 500 lawyers involved in matters of regional, national and global concern.
Board of directors Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, 1986-1995, president, 1992-1994. Member board overseers Rand Center Russian and Eurasian Studies, since 1987, chair, since 1994. Trustee American U. Cairo, since 1987.
Board directors California Supreme Court History Society, since 1993. Board overseers The Huntington, since 1996. Member Council Foreign Rels., California Club, Los Angeles Country Club.
Married Mary Kay Sweeney, March 31, 1962. Children: Kathryn, Kevin.