He worked with a group that wrote TV commercials for such products as Dial Soap and deodorant, Raid house and garden spray, Kraft Italian macaroni dinners, and Kleenex/Kotex.
He was hired as director of a student outreach program called "Education in Action", and was appointed the housemaster of Umrath Hall, a dormitory housing 140 freshman women.
After nearly five years at Channel 5, Hunter left for expanded reporter and anchoring duties at KMOX-TV, the then owned and operated CBS television station in St. Louis.
[4] While serving at SLU, Hunter was appointed in 2006 by Missouri Governor Matt Blunt to the five-member St. Louis Police Board for a four-year term.
[2] After he researched and wrote a book on his family's history, Hunter, realizing that family root searches can be expensive ventures, raised several hundred thousand dollars from his own pocket and the contributions of individuals and corporations to open the Julius K. Hunter & Friends African American Research Collection at the St. Louis County Library.
[7][8] Hunter wrote Honey Island, which traces his family roots back to the birth of his great-great grandfather as a slave born in 1825 in Kentucky.
[10] Hunter’s memoir TV One-on-One features transcripts of his historic interviews with five United States Presidents along with behind the scenes stories about many of the celebrity interviews he conducted with Pearl Bailey, Ted Kennedy, Jimmy Hoffa, Sophia Loren, Cab Calloway, Milton Berle, Julia Child, Oprah Winfrey, Bette Midler, Ike Turner, and more.