Gail Hillebrand is a Senior Attorney at the West Coast Office of Consumers Union, nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports magazine. Ms. Hillebrand leads Consumers Union’s Financial Services Campaign. Her issues include banking, consumer credit, payments, identity theft, electronic commerce, consumer legal rights and remedies, and the Uniform Commercial Code revision process.
Ms. Hillebrand is the 2004 recipient of the National Consumer Law Center’s Vern Countryman Award. She is a member of the American Law Institute. She is the former founding chair and former board member of the California Reinvestment Committee, a statewide coalition working to encourage financial institutions to serve low-income consumers and neighborhoods. Ms. Hillebrand has served on the Consumer Advisory Council to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, and on the boards of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and the San Francisco Women Lawyers Alliance.
For information on the work of the Consumers Union Financial Services Campaign team, see:
www.defendyourdollars.org
www.creditcardreform.org
Please note: Consumers Union does not give legal advice to individuals.