Issue: Spring 2018 | Posted: June 1, 2018
Norman Hill ('80)
Lest We Forget Award
Presented in recognition of longtime service and contributions to the Union University community.
Norman Hill, a 1980 Union University graduate, said he serves and promotes Union so that the university can pass on its distinctive mission to the next generation.
Hill has spent his life working in health care business. He is the executive director of the medical group practice Pathology Group of the Mid-South and executive director of Trumbull Laboratories, LLC, where he is a co-founding member. He is in his 18th year serving as a Union University trustee and has also served on Union’s Finance and Audit Committee. He said he will continue to support Union because of how the university affected him and continues to influence students.
“It all boils down to Union’s mission,” Hill said. “I think that it’s extremely important for people of all professions to serve the Lord in their professions. Union has a distinctive mission that embraces that philosophy and encourages its professors to incorporate God’s word into their curriculum.”
During his time at Union, Hill served as president of the senior class, president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity chapter and chairman of the Resident Life Board. He said while he was not tuned in to his own spiritual growth at that time, Union’s community, mission and philosophy influenced him in the right ways.
“Later on in my adult life, after truly committing my life to the Lord, I began to see the great value that can bring,” Hill said. “It benefits students who are engaged at that level at that age, and it even benefits kids like me.”
Hill went on from Union to earn his Master of Business Administration from Christian Brothers University. He has worked in health care business for more than 30 years, and he said without the foundation laid by his professors at Union, he would not have been prepared to enter the business world. He said while he will continue to serve Union however he can, the real service comes from the faculty and staff members who invest in students daily.
“It really is all about preparing students for life beyond college,” Hill said.
Hill talks with students about what they can do in March 2013 during the presidential transition at a Student Senate meeting.