William B. Hill Jr. has split his career between the public and private sectors, first with the Georgia attorney general’s office, where in 1987 he argued a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, the first time the state of Georgia had been represented on oral argument by an African-American lawyer, and, arguing without notes, he won.
Three years later, Hill was appointed to a state court judgeship and later named a superior court judge who dictated his rulings from the bench immediately following every hearing.
