Dr. Hill completed his undergraduate work at the University of New Hampshire where he received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1971. From there, Dr. Hill continued his education at the University of Southern Maine, where he earned his Master of Science Degree in Education in 1982. Following this, he completed his education at the University of Arizona where he earned his Ph.D. in 1986.

Since Dr. Hill joined the faculty at Millersville, he has taught a variety of courses at both the undergraduate and the graduate levels. In the undergraduate program Dr. Hill has taught General Psychology (PSYC 100), Development of the Child and Adolescent (PSYC 227), Life Span and Human Development (PSYC 228), Human Relations (PSYC 234), Psychology of Human Adjustment (PSYC 256), Psychology of Drug Addiction (PSYC 311), and Family Systems (PSYC 403). For the graduate program, Dr. Hill has taught Child Development Within the Family System, Group Process and Personality, Psychopathology, Family Therapy, and Practicum in Psychology.

Dr. Hill's areas of specialization are clinical/counseling psychology and developmental psychology. He also has several subspecialty areas, such as suicide and depression, addictions and their treatment, child and adolescent therapy, relationship counseling, and abuse. Dr. Hills' research interests span many of the above-mentioned specialty and subspecialty areas, with the addition of psychological resilience versus risk factors, death and bereavement, human sexuality, and the psychological and physiological factors related to health and disease. Outside of the classroom, Dr. Hill also serves on the Undergraduate Committee, the Graduate Committee, the Faculty Search Committee, and the Faculty Promotion and Tenure Committee, as well as serving as the Psychology Department's representative to APSCUF, the faculty union. In addition, Dr. Hill also serves as a consultant to Lancaster County Children and Youth Agency as well as to the Lancaster Freedom Center (an intensive outpatient chemical dependency treatment agency).

When not involved with university related responsibilities, Dr. Hill is a husband and a father at home. For exercise, he likes to go running with his older daughter, and for fun he enjoys riding bikes with his wife, Pat, who teaches in Millersville's Chemistry Department. Dr. Hill also served as a soccer coach for his younger daughter, and he has also been a 4-H Horse Club leader.