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Quin Hillyer |
Senior Fellow
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Quin Hillyer is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom ("CFIF").
Prior to joining CFIF, Mr. Hillyer was at The Washington Times, where he worked for two years as Senior Editorial Writer. He has won mainstream journalism awards as an editorialist and columnist at local, state, regional and national levels.
From 1991 to 1996, Hillyer served as press secretary for House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bob Livingston (R-LA) when the committee cut domestic discretionary spending by $50 billion in actual dollars in just two years, leading the way to the first balanced federal budget in more than three decades.
A veteran of dozens of conservative political campaigns, Hillyer was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the public affairs office of the Veterans Administration. He was a founding board member of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism, the internationally acclaimed group that was formed in the early 1990s to successfully combat the political rise of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
Hillyer is a 1986 cum laude graduate of Georgetown University and a Fellow of the Loyola University (New Orleans) Institute of Politics and of Leadership Coastal Alabama. He is married to the former Therese Robinson, originally of Mobile. |
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