Hillary Schneller
Senior Staff Attorney
Hillary joined the Center for Reproductive Rights in 2014 and is now a senior staff attorney. Hillary was co-lead counsel in the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, where she represented the last abortion clinic in Mississippi and defended the right to abortion. She has led numerous other cases in state and federal courts to secure and expand access to abortion. Hillary also works closely with the Center’s U.S. Human Rights team to advance impact litigation to dismantle racist and sexist polices that restrict access to maternal health care.
Before joining the Center, Hillary was an Equal Justice Works fellow at the National Women’s Law Center, where her work focused on addressing sex discrimination in health care. She received her J.D. from Columbia Law School and her B.A. from Barnard College.