Hill, Lucille V.

Lucille V. Hill is a native of Thomaston, Georgia, where she completed high school in 1942. She attended Tuskegee Institute and graduated with a degree in nursing in 1945. Mrs. Hill served as a public health nurse for the Fulton County Health Department in Atlanta, Georgia, and she also spearheaded the creation of Atlanta Southside Community Health Center. She has been involved in community projects in the Fourth Ward of Atlanta for many years. She advocated for the Presidential Parkway, linking the Jimmy Carter Presidential Center with the downtown area of Atlanta. She has been a volunteer for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change and the Jimmy Carter Center, and has been chairperson of Neighborhood Planning Unit-M of the city of Atlanta. She has served as a Fulton County Deputy Registrar and has been an activist for increased services for the elderly in the city of Atlanta and Fulton County, Georgia. Mrs. Hill is the mother of James A. Hill, Jr., a lawyer and former state representative, state senator, and treasurer of Oregon.