After graduating law school, Hill served as a law clerk to Judge William Walter Wilkins of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. From 1990 to 2000, he was a member of Hill, Wyatt & Bannister in Greenville. In 2000, he started Hill & Hill, LLC with his father. From 2004 to 2017, he served as a resident circuit judge for the Thirteenth Circuit.[2] In 2016, he was one of five candidates to fill a vacancy on the court of appeals.[5] On February 1, 2017, he was elected by the South Carolina General Assembly in a 148–0 vote[6] to serve as a judge of the South Carolina Court of Appeals, James E Lockemy.[3][2]
South Carolina Supreme Court
On February 8, 2023, he was elected by the General Assembly to serve as a justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court in a 140–0 vote.[7] He replaced retired Justice Kaye Gorenflo Hearn, making the South Carolina Supreme Court the only state supreme court in the country without a female justice.[8][9]