Later he worked at the investment bank of Drexel Burnham Lambert and then at the law firm of Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine.
[1] Hills was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Whittier, California, where he played high school football under the same coach as former President Richard M. Nixon.
[6] During his career he also served as a founding name partner with his wife at Latham, Watkins & Hills, the DC branch 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.
[9] He was married to former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Carla Anderson Hills from 1958 until his death.
[10][11] Hills died on October 29, 2014, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore at age 83 of heart failure.