Elected Member

Elizabeth Lutes Hillman

New York, NY
National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Education
Duke University, BSEE
Yale University, PhD
Yale Law School, JD

Beth Hillman 

Elizabeth L. Hillman is president and CEO of the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum, which remembers and honors the nearly 3,000 victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and all those who risked their lives to save others. Hillman began her career as a space operations officer in the U.S. Air Force and then taught history at the U.S. Air Force Academy. After serving on the law faculty at Rutgers University-Camden and the University of California Hastings College of the Law, she became the 14th president of Mills College, the first women’s college west of the Rockies. In 2022, she was appointed chair of the independent Military Justice Review Panel, chartered by Congress to review and assess the operation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. She served on a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study group that issued a landmark 2018 report on sexual harassment and on the Response Systems Panel, which made recommendations for improving the U.S. military's investigation, prosecution, and adjudication of adult sexual assault in 2014. She holds degrees in engineering, law, and history from Duke, Yale, and Penn.

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Areas of Expertise
Legal History
Constitutional Law
Estate Planning
Military Law (Government Law)