V. Janet Hill

Janet Hill is a principal with Hill Family Advisors in Fairfax, Virginia.  Previously, she served as vice president and owner of Alexander & Associates, Inc., a corporate consulting firm in Washington, D.C.  She provides corporate planning, advice, and analyses to directors, executives, and managers in the areas of human resource planning, corporate responsibility, corporate communications, and government consultation.  Formerly, she was special assistant to the Secretary of the Army and a research mathematician for a consulting firm serving the United States Navy.  She has also taught mathematics at the high school and collegiate levels.

Mrs. Hill is a member of the corporate boards of Sprint Nextel, Inc., Wendy's/Arbys Group., and Dean Foods, Inc.  She has non-profit board affiliations with the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, the Durham Literacy Center, and the Wellesley Business Leadership Council.  In addition, Mrs. Hill is a former chairwoman of the Women's Campaign Fund, the only bipartisan national PAC raising money for women running for federal, state, and local offices.

Mrs. Hill received a bachelor of arts from Wellesley College in 1969, and a master of arts in mathematics from the University of Chicago Graduate School in 1972.

Mrs. Hill is a member of the Board of Visitors of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.  She and her husband, Calvin, chaired the Parents Committee of Duke University in the early 1990s when their son, Grant, was a Duke undergraduate.  The Hills reside in Great Falls,Virginia.

Elected to the Duke University Board of Trustees in 2006, Mrs. Hill serves as vice chair of the Human Resources Committee and a member of the Undergraduate Affairs Committee.

July 2011