Eve Hill is the District’s first director of the Office of Disability Rights (ODR). ODR is responsible for implementing the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) and other federal and District disability-related laws and regulations throughout the District government.

Hill has been a disability rights attorney and advocate for over 14 years. In 1993, she joined the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division in Washington, where she supervised investigations of complaints under the ADA, implemented the ADA Mediation Program and certified building codes for compliance with the ADA. In 1998, she was appointed executive director of the Disability Rights Legal Center, a leading nonprofit disability advocacy group in Los Angeles. While there, she quadrupled the size and scope of the organization and gained national recognition for its accomplishments. She was also a visiting associate professor at Loyola Law School and an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California School of Law and Loyola Marymount University, where she taught courses on disability rights and special education.

Hill is the co-author of “Disability Civil Rights Law and Policy,” both as case book and treatise. She received the 2007 Distinguished Service Award from the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, was a Durfee Foundation Stanton Fellow in 2006, and won the 2002 State Bar of California Diversity Award.  Lawdragon recognized Hill as one of the top 3,000 plaintiffs’ lawyers in the US and Los Angeles Magazine rated her as one of the top 5 percent of lawyers in Los Angeles County.

Prior to becoming active in the disability rights movement, Hill was an attorney with the law firm of Pierson Semmes and Bemis.

A native of Maine, Hill is a graduate of Sweet Briar College and Cornell Law School.