C.T. Hill

As a youngster growing up in a tobacco farm in Nottoway County, Virginia I learned early the value of hard work and sharing resources with your neighbors. My father, John W. Hill, Sr. exposed me to the joys available through the traditions of hunting and fishing. As long as I can remember there were food plots planted for wildlife on our farm. My father was somewhat of a local legend for the quality of his hounds for deer and coon hunting. We had blueticks, walkers and redbones. In fact, at his death in 1983 the headlines in a C.D. James article in the Blackstone paper read, "Deer Hunter Passes." The same C.D. James commented on my 2005 appointment to the Board of VDGIF, "Mr. Hill comes from a family of hunters. He should have a good understanding of what is good for hunting and what is not."

Today, among others, I am a Life Member of the Virginia Deer Hunters Association, a Life Sponsor of Ducks Unlimited (past recipient of Conservationist of the Year from the Chesterfield Chapter) and a member of Quail Unlimited. My hunting passion today is a day in the field hunting quail with my two sons and our English Setters (4th generation raised by us).

We are fortunate to still have the farm in the Hill family and spend as much time as possible carrying on the tradition of having food plots for wildlife and enjoying the outdoors. I live in Chesterfield County with my wife of thirty-one years, Moira.