[1] Sills was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1917, and his family moved to Perth Amboy, New Jersey in 1921.
[2] Sills was appointed by Governor Richard J. Hughes as Attorney General of New Jersey.
[2] As Attorney General in the two Hughes administrations, Sills championed civil rights and strong gun control legislation.
Sills was criticized by civil rights groups for defending a warrantless search for stolen guns by 300 heavily armed New Jersey State Police and National Guardsmen during the 1967 Plainfield riots.
[4] Sills also came under fire from the American Civil Liberties Union for writing a memorandum in the wake of the 1967 Newark riots encouraging state police to compile detailed dossiers on people taking part in demonstrations.