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Carol Ann Hewitt was born in Minnesota in 1945. Her family came to Salem, Oregon, when she was a child. She attended St. Olaf College in Minnesota and returned to Oregon to finish her degree at Willamette University. She continued at Willamette, studying law, and earned her law degree in 1969. She spent a year as a clerk at the U.S. District Court of Oregon for Judge Gus Solomon. She then spent many years as an attorney with Lindsay Nahstoll, where she tried many landmark cases on sex discrimination, including Hutchison v. Lake Oswego School Dist. No.7, which partially led to the passage of the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act by the U.S. Congress. She was later a partner with Ater, Wynne, Hewitt, Dodson & Skerrit in Portland, Oregon. She was appointed to the Oregon Investment Council by Governor Vic Atiyeh in 1981, serving as chair from 1988 to 1990, when she resigned from the council. She died in 1993.