Hilton O. Smith, an ordained minister, is senior vice president for corporate community affairs at Turner Construction Company, where he manages the company’s corporate community affairs, minority- and woman-owned business enterprise (MWBE), and equal employment and educational programs. Smith has actively led Turner’s efforts in awarding more than $20 billion to thousands of minority- and woman-owned business enterprises; for seven years, Turner has reached the $1 billion mark in the MWBE utilization program. Smith also oversees the Turner School of Construction Management, which annually coordinates and provides educational opportunities in the construction industry for small businesses. This widely recognized program has received many honors, including the U.S. Department of Labor’s EVE Award, U.S. Civil Rights Commission Award for Best Practices and U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency Minority Advocate Award. Smith earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology and political science from St. Augustine’s College and studied urban theology at Yale University. In 2012, he was elected president of the Cleveland NAACP and served on the 25th Anniversary Milestone Committee of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS.