THURSDAY LUNCHEON SPEAKER | 09-20-2018

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09/20/2018 12:10 PM 09/20/2018 01:30 PM America/Los_Angeles THURSDAY LUNCHEON SPEAKER
Member Beth Hillman, President of Mills College
1736 Franklin Street, California Ballroom (2nd floor), Oakland, CA, 94612

Member Beth Hillman, President of Mills College

THURSDAY LUNCHEON SPEAKER

Thursday, September 20th, 2018 - 12:10pm to 1:30pm

 

Dr. Elizabeth L. Hillman joined Mills College in 2016  as the school’s 14th President. A scholar of history and law, President Hillman frequently speaks and publishes on issues of sexual violence and gender equity and teaches courses at Mills. Her expertise in sexual violence and gender issues in the military has won national and international recognition. She has been an expert witness for Congress and national commissions, most recently at a Congressional Women’s Caucus hearing to address nonconsensual pornography in the US Military (Marines United), and served on the Response Systems to Adult Sexual Assault Crimes Panel (RSP), an independent panel chartered by the US Congress to study and make recommendations about sexual assault in the US military. A veteran of the US Air Force who taught history and law at the US Air Force Academy, Yale University, Rutgers, and the University of California Hastings College of the Law, she was president of the National Institute of Military Justice and reporter for the two Cox Commission reports, which recommended improvements to the US military justice system. She holds a Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering from Duke Univeristy, a Masters degree in History from Univeristy of Pennsylvania, a JD from Yale Law School and a PhD from Yale University.

Thursday
Sep 20, 2018
12:10PM to 1:30PM
1736 Franklin Street
California Ballroom (2nd floor)
Oakland, CA 94612

One block from the 19th Street BART station