[4] He enlisted in 1942, and received his commission as a second lieutenant after completing the Army Administration School's officer training program at North Dakota Agricultural College in Fargo.
[4][5] Hill was a member of the Judge Advocate General's Corps, and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel before retiring.
[3] In 1976, Hill was appointed an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, succeeding Milford K.
[13] In 1986 and 1987, Hill and two other justices, Ernest W. Gibson III and Thomas L. Hayes, were accused of tailoring decisions to suit the wishes of an assistant judge in Chittenden County, and helping her cover up pay padding; the assistant judge, Jane Wheel, was supposed to be wielding undue influence over the justices.
[16] Hill was a visiting professor of history at Burlington's Trinity College,[5] and a lecturer on trial advocacy at Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire.
[5] In 1992, Hill published The Vermont State Constitution: A Reference Guide, a work on the document's history and interpretation.
[1][17] She was a graduate of Hunter College and the University of Vermont, and taught in several Chittenden County school systems.