Name Jennifer Hillman | Role Counsel | |
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Education Harvard Law School, Duke University | ||
Jennifer Anne Hillman is a law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, teaching courses in international economic law, including international trade, investment and international business transactions. Hillman’s career focuses on international trade and investment, financial services and the adjudication of international economic disputes. She recently served as one of seven judges from around the world on the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) highest court, its Appellate Body, where she helped adjudicate 20 disputes involving a wide variety of legal obligations, ranging from claims arising from subsidies to Airbus, Boeing and US cotton producers, to regulations over trade in agriculture products, to antidumping disputes, to claims regarding the nature and extent of China’s WTO accession commitments. Hillman also has in-depth experience adjudicating antidumping, countervailing duty, patent and safeguards cases as a result of her nine-year service as a Commissioner at the United States International Trade Commission. Through her work as the General Counsel at the Office of the United States Trade Representative, Hillman was integrally involved in all litigation matters in which the United States was a party or third party in disputes before panels of the NAFTA or the WTO. She demonstrated great success at negotiating trade agreements, having reached mutually acceptable agreements with over 45 countries while serving as USTR’s Ambassador and Chief Textiles Negotiator. Hillman also has extensive policy-making experience, having worked in the United States Senate on numerous pieces of legislation relating to banking, securities, financial services, investment, housing and international trade.
Pre-government career
She served as Legislative Director and Counsel to U.S. Senator Terry Sanford of North Carolina. She was responsible for trade issues, as well as matters coming before the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. She began her professional career as an international trade attorney with the firm of Patton, Boggs LLP.
Originally from South Bend, Indiana, she earned her B.A. in political science and a Master of Education degree in higher education administration from Duke University. She earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School.
She resides in Washington, D.C. with her husband, Mitchell Berger, and their two sons.