Tasha A. Hill
ATTORNEY
Tasha A. Hill is a civil rights attorney in Los Angeles, CA. Tasha’s practice focuses on litigation, legal advocacy, public education, and policy advocacy concerning the problems encountered by LGBTIQ+ people in the criminal justice system. This includes work with California police and county sheriff’s departments to reduce discriminatory profiling of LGBTIQ people as well as discriminatory conditions of confinement for LGBTIQ+ people in county jails and state prisons. Tasha also provides “Know Your Rights” training for at-risk LGBTIQ+ people, including youth, transgender women, people of color, and gay men.
Tasha has successfully litigated many cases on behalf of LGBTIQ+ individuals in California, including civil rights cases, restraining orders, and criminal defense. Most recently, Tasha helped a woman incarcerated in the Los Angeles County Men’s Central Jail achieve a settlement against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for discrimination based her gender identity.
Tasha brings substantial professional advocacy experience to her work with LGBTIQ+ populations, having served for over a decade in deputy and executive director positions for LGBTIQ+ organizations in Las Vegas, Colorado Springs, and Washington, D.C.
Prior to founding her firm, Tasha worked for the U.S. District Court, District of Nevada, as a law clerk screening inmate civil rights cases. In 2015-2017, Tasha was a Berkeley Law Foundation Fellow, working at the ACLU of Southern California as an LGBTQ Rights Staff Attorney. Prior to her fellowship, Tasha clerked for the Honorable Douglas F. McCormick of the U.S. District Court, Central District of California.
Tasha’s pronouns are She/Her/Hers.
Teaching
Tasha developed and taught a course at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law, entitled: Disparate LGBTQI Criminalization and Incarceration. Tasha also served as a Guest Lecturer at UCLA School of Law, “HIV Law and Policy” course, Disparate Criminalization and Incarceration of HIV Infected/Affected Persons, in Spring 2019 and 2020.
Education
UCLA School of Law
Juris Doctor, 2014
University Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV)
M.Ed., Instructional and Curricular Studies;
B.S., Biological Sciences
Publications
A Federal Attack on LGBTQ2 Rights by Targeting Incarcerated Transgender Women, The ABA Equalizer, Vol.3 No.1 (Winter 2019)
End Law Enforcement Violence Against Trans Women, The Hill (Feb 8, 2016)
Inmates’ Need for Federally Funded Lawyers: How the Prison Litigation Reform Act, Casey, and Iqbal Combine With Implicit Bias to Eviscerate Inmate Civil Rights, 62 UCLA L. Rev. 176 (2015)
Transgender Military Inmates’ Legal and Constitutional Rights to Medical Care in Prisons: Serious Medical Need Versus Military Necessity, 39 Vermont L. Rev. 411 (2014)
Sexual Abuse in California Prisons: How the California Rape Shield Fails the Most Vulnerable Populations, 21 UCLA Women’s L.J. 89 (2014)
Activities & Affiliations
Pro Bono work on behalf of the Williams Institute
Pro Bono work on behalf of the National Lawyers Guild and representation of persons arrested while protesting police violence.
Pro Bono work on behalf of transgender persons needing assistance in name and gender change petitions.
Former Board Member, Pro Bono Committee Co-Chair: LGBT Bar Association of Los Angeles
Member, National Lawyers Guild of Los Angeles, National Police Accountability Project, National LGBT Bar Association
Panels
National Lawyers Guild “Youth+LGBTQ Protestor Rights,” October 2020.
UCLA School of Law, Liberation Lawyering 2019: “Envisioning a World Without Prisons and Police,” March 2019
UC Irvine School of Law's Symposium: “Trans* Lives and Rights: Contemporary Legal and Policy Battles” (discussing criminalization and incarceration of transgender persons), March 2018
National Association of Civilian Police Oversight Conference (discussing “Safeguarding the LGBTQI Community”), September 2017
Equality California - Fair Share for Equality, “The LGBTQ Experience and the Criminal Justice System,” February 2017
Stanford Law School, Shaking the Foundations Progressive Lawyering Conference: Legal Discrimination Against and Abuse of Incarcerated Transgender Persons, October, 2016
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