The subseries Civil Rights and Education includes documentation of efforts to include women-owned businesses in the City's contracting process through Ordinance 109113, passed in 1980. Correspondence from contractors, business associations, the Law Department, Board of Public Works, and Council members traces the crafting of the ordinance and subsequent amendments. Reports evaluating the first and third years of the Women and Minority Owned Business Enterprise program are included.

The Civil Rights and Education subseries also includes material relating to the closing of five elementary schools in 1979, and their subsequent reuse and desegregation. These topics reflect constituent opinions and cooperative efforts between the City and the Seattle School District. Hildt's involvement in the City/School District Joint Committee is documented in these records. The Committee, formed in 1979, was composed of three members of the City Council, three members of the School Board, and two members of the Joint Advisory Commission on Education and met to review policy issues of joint concern, one of which was peaceful desegregation in Seattle. Diana Gale was policy analyst for the Legislative Department at this time, and was active in many of the education issues. She was part of the Schools/Communities 1990 Project, formed to carry out the goals of the City/School District Joint Committee. The Project worked towards improving the quality of residential neighborhoods and public education in the City.