Matthew Joseph Hill (born December 4, 1978) is an American talk show host,[1] businessman, and politician who served as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 2005 to 2021.

[3][4][5][6] Hill subsequently lost his own 2020 Republican Primary bid in the Tennessee 7th House District "by a nearly two to one margin to political newcomer" Rebecca Alexander.

[23] Another 2006 bill introduced by Hill, HB2924,[24] would make child rape a capital offense, punishable by death or life imprisonment and would cost Tennessee taxpayers over $15 million each year to carry out the proposal.

[27][28] The Nashville Scene reported on February 9, 2010 that Hill introduced his HB2683,[29] legislation that "...would transfer all commercial vehicle inspection and enforcement duties from the Safety Department to the Tennessee Regulatory Authority."

In addition to all this new revenue from tractor-trailer tickets, the TRA and its directors also would gain fabulous new patronage powers under Hill's bill to fill positions outside of civil service for the next two years.

– discuss] The U.S. Supreme Court in 1958 (Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1) ruled that attempts by state and local officials to nullify federal law amounted to a “war against the Constitution” and cannot be accomplished by an official “without violating his solemn oath to support it.”[35] In early 2017, Hill and State Senator Bill Ketron garnered national attention by proposing legislation that would free motorists of civil liability for running down political demonstrators.

[36] Hill amended a 2018 bill to strip Memphis of $250,000 after the majority-black city legally circumvented the Tennessee Heritage Protection Act by having opted to sell a parcel of land from a Memphis city park to a non-profit organization that immediately removed the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and statue of Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest from display on the former city-owned property.

TNGA Senator Jack Johnson (R-Franklin) and Hill, were the only votes against the removal of the Nathan Bedford Forrest bust from the Tennessee General Assembly building.