Before first campaigning for election to the Tennessee House of Representatives, Hill was employed as a talk show host by the 501(c)(3) Appalachian Educational Communication Corporation (AECC) that was managed by his parents and other family members. Hill would later drop his employment with the non-profit AECC and was subsequently employed as a radio talk show host by the for-profit Information Communications Corporation (d.b.a. WPWT 870 AM et al) owned by both his father,
Tennessee Regulatory Authority Director Kenneth Hill and the non-profit AECC. Hill later served the one-term former U.S. Representative
David Davis as a congressional press secretary and communications director in Washington, D.C., and resigned after it was widely reported he used a government computer at the
U.S. House of Representatives to
remove content pertaining to both
King Pharmaceuticals and one of the pharmaceutical company's founders and chief executive officer,
John M. Gregory from Wikipedia biographical articles pertaining Gregory's ties to both Davis and his brother, Tennessee State Representative Matthew Hill. Gregory was a major campaign contributor to Republican candidates and conservative causes in Tennessee and donates the rental of office and studio space within his Lietner Pharmaceuticals building in Bristol to Appalachian Educational Communication Corporation controlled by Hill's family members. Hill is a co-owner since 2009 of the Right Way Marketing, LLC a telemarketing firm with his brother, Rep. Matthew Hill, and was, at one time, the sole owner of the Bonzo's Fireworks stand in
Johnson County, Tennessee, Hill also reportedly owned a "boutique" public relations company, Sterling Strategies, that he started up while he was attending ETSU. His brother, Rep. Matthew Hill was among the few customers that Sterling Strategies received any revenue, "$34,430.47 for a variety of campaign services including advertising, professional services, fans, fundraising and radio advertising" from 2008 through 2012. Hill registered Regional Restaurant Partners, Inc. (d.b.a. Big Bobs Pizza) of Bluff City with the Tennessee Secretary of State on April 28, 2015. Big Bob's Pizza initially had two stores in northeast Tennessee (one location in Piney Flats, Tennessee and the other in Bristol, Tennessee), however, the closing of Big Bob's Pizza store in Bristol was announced on the company's Facebook page on June 30, 2016. In 2023, after representative
Scotty Campbell resigned over being found guilty by an ethics subcommittee of sexually harassing at least one of his interns, the
Johnson County Commission appointed Hill to represent the 3rd district, until the special election for the district on August 3, 2023. ==Elections==