Charles E. Hill; Consumer Law Center Official

Charles E. Hill, 49, director of the Washington office of the National Consumer Law Center. Hill, who had been with the consumer law center since 1979, was a nationally known specialist in government programs to assist the poor in paying to heat their homes. A native of Pittsburgh, Hill was a 1963 graduate of Duke University. He graduated from Harvard University Law School in 1966, and later served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia. Hill worked for a Washington law firm and as associate director of the Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown University Law Center before joining the consumer law center. In Washington on Sunday of cancer.