Elizabeth (Liz) G. Hill was the first woman to head the California Legislative Analyst’s Office (1986-2008), one of the most important positions in that state’s government as a nonpartisan fiscal advisor to both houses of the California Legislature with a staff of over 50. She joined the LAO as a program analyst in 1976. She earned degrees from Stanford in human biology (1973) and a master’s degree in public policy at the University of California, Berkeley (1975), as well as a Fulbright Scholar in Sweden. In 1997, she was recognized as a ‘Public Official of the Year’ by Governing magazine, elected as a 1998 Fellow to NAPA, and in 2005 the recipient of the National Public Service Award from the American Society of Public Administration. In 2011, she became a board member of the California Health Care Foundation.