Bonnie Hill

Director, Providence St Joseph’s Foundation; Providence SoCal Medical Regional Board

Bonnie Hill has over 32 years’ experience serving on thirteen different corporate boards and a host of non-profit boards. She has a wide-ranging career in business, government, education, and philanthropy. Currently she serves on the boards of Providence St Joseph’s Foundation, and Providence SoCal Medical Regional Board. Past public board service includes Banc of California (2017 -2023) California Water Service Group, Yum! Brands, Inc., The Home Depot (1999-2014, serving as lead director 2008-1014), and AK Steel Holding Corp.

She is an alumni faculty member of the NACD Board Advisory Services Program, a founding member of the Lead Directors Network, and a former board member of W2020 (Women on Boards). She co-chaired the NACD Blue Ribbon Commission Report on Building the Strategic-Asset Board published in 2016 and served on the board of FINRA (Financial Industrial Regulatory Authority) Investor Education Foundation and was a member of PCAOB (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board) Investor Advisory Group.

Bonnie was honored with the 2023 Black Women on Boards (BWOB) Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Forum for Corporate Directors and was honored with the 2015 B. Kenneth West Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Association of Corporate Directors. Dr. Hill was also acknowledged by the NACD as one of America’s most influential people in Corporate Governance in 2010, and as a 2011 Outstanding Director by the Financial Times’ Outstanding Director Exchange. Her Presidential appointments include Vice Chair of the Postal Rate Commission and Assistant Secretary in the U.S. Department of Education under President Reagan, and Special Adviser to President George H. W. Bush for Consumer Affairs. Bonnie has chaired the Consumer Affairs Advisory Committee for the SEC and served on the board of directors of NASD Regulation, Inc. In 2020 Bonnie retired from the Rand Corporation Board where she served for eleven years. She has a B.A. from Mills College, a M.S. degree from Cal State Hayward, and an Ed.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She and her husband Walter have three daughters and five grandchildren.