Family Court Judge Patricia Hill was born and raised in Beckley. She has a 1976 bachelor’s degree in social work and a 1977 master’s degree in social work, both from West Virginia University. She has a 1985 law degree from West Virginia University College of Law, where she was Order of the Barristers and won first place in a moot court competition in Philadelphia.

She was elected to the bench in the Twentieth Family Court Circuit (Monongalia and Preston Counties) in 2008 and re-elected in 2016.

She previously practiced law at Coldren, DeHaas & Radcliffe in Uniontown, Pennsylvania (1985 to 1986); Hajduk & Associates in Uniontown, Pennsylvania (1988 to 1989); Hajduk & Hill in Morgantown (1989 to 1991); and Hill and Associates in Morgantown (1991 to 2008). She was a nursing home ombudsman at the West Virginia Commission on Aging in Charleston (1977 to 1978), an assistant professor in social work at Salem College (1978 to 1982), and a claim representative at State Farm in Fairmont (1986 to 1988).

Judge Hill attends Chestnut Ridge Community Church. She and her husband, Leonard “Ike” Hill, have two sons.