Jim Hill works as a management consultant for small businesses and as a volunteer for non profit organizations at the local, state, regional, and national levels following a twenty-year career in the U. S. Army and an additional fifteen years as a corporate executive and plant manager for the DuPont Company. In the early 90’s he also served as the President and CEO of the Tennessee Aquarium. His civic involvement has included service on a bank and a hospital board, the United Way, the Chamber of Commerce, the area’s economic development agency, and the local university foundation. His service to arts organizations has included membership on the boards of Allied Arts of Chattanooga, the Southeast Center for the Arts, the regional Southern arts Federation, which he chaired for four years, and the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. He has also been a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts for almost a decade. Additional, he was appointed to two terms of office on the Tennessee Arts Commission, one as Chair.

Currently he serves on the following boards:
   • The Tennessee Education Lottery
   • The Public Education Foundation
   • The UC Foundation
   • The Southeast Center for the Arts
   • SunTrust Bank
   • The RiverCity Corporation
   • The Tennessee Aquarium
   • The Community Research Council

Jim Hill holds an undergraduate degree in chemistry and graduate degrees in chemistry and business administration.