David R. Hill — Partner and Co-Head of Global Energy Practice at Sidley Austin LLP

Mr. David R. Hill serves as a Partner at Sidley Austin LLP and also serves as a Co-Head of its global energy practice. Mr. Hill joined Sidley Austin in April 2009. He served as General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) from August 2005 to January 2009. Prior to General Counsel, he served as Deputy General Counsel for Energy Policy at DOE from March 2002 to August 2005. Before joining the Department, Mr. Hill was a partner in the Kansas City, Missouri law firm of Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin, and before that was a partner with Wiley, Rein & Fielding in Washington, D.C. In private practice, his work covered a wide range of regulatory, litigation and corporate matters, including regulatory matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other federal and state agencies. Mr. Hill served as editor-in-chief of the Northwestern University Law Review. Earlier in his career, he served as a law clerk for Judge James K. Logan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, was an associate at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, and served as associate counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture. Mr. Hill received his bachelor's degree with honors from the University of Missouri-Columbia College of Agriculture in 1985. He received his law degree with honors in 1988 from the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago.