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Stanford Law School; Stanford University.
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Roderick Maltman Hills
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Later he worked at the investment bank of Drexel Burnham Lambert and then at the law firm of Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine. In 1962, he founded the law firm of Munger, Tolles, Hills, and Rickershauser (now Munger, Tolles & Olson) along with six other lawyers. During his career he also served as a partner in the Washington law firm of Latham & Watkins, as the chief executive officer of Peabody Coal and—in the early 1980s—as the Washington-based head of a merchant banking arm of Sears that was known as Sears World Trade.
From 1984 until his death in 2014, he served as chairman of Hills Enterprises, Limited.
(formerly The Manchester Group, Limited). Born in Seattle, Washington in 1931, he grew up in Whittier, California, where he played high school football under the same coach as former President Richard M. Nixon.
A janitor"s son, he was the first in his family to go to college. Hills received his bachelor"s degree from Stanford University and then his Bachelor of Laws at Stanford Law School in 1955, following which he served as Law Clerk to Justice Stanley F. Reed, Supreme Court of the United States, 1955-1957.
Hills died on October 29, 2014, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore at age 83 of heart failure.
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