Career
Born in Gebo, Wyoming, he began working for the Missoulian in Montana and worked on the base newspaper while stationed in the army at the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center from 1960 to 1962. Hilliard joined the Associated Press in November 1964 and worked in its bureau in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He was assigned to cover politics and state government for the Associated Press in Denver in 1967 and retired in 1999.
Carl Hilliard died of heart attack on November 10, 2013, aged 76, in Commerce City, Colorado.