David Hill (1932–2005) was a partner in the law firm of Bartunek, Garofoli & Hill and president of David Gordon Hill & Associates, a management consultant firm that worked with minority business enterprises. Born in Pittsburgh, he worked his way through the University of Pittsburgh (A.B., 1955), served in Europe as an Air Force officer, then attended Ohio State University’s College of Law (J.D., 1960), where he was an associate editor of the law journal and on the honors council. Hill was working as the director of Pittsburgh’s anti-poverty agency when Cleveland mayor Carl Stokes asked him to become the city’s first director of human resources and economic development. After a decade of public service, he went into private law practice in 1972, then opened a consulting business in 1985.

Hill served as vice president of the Ohio Board of Regents and United Way Services, chaired Cleveland State University’s board of trustees, and sat on the boards of the Cleveland Play House, Cleveland Public Radio, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Greater Cleveland Roundtable and Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He was a life member of the NAACP and chairman of Mosaica, a Washington-based organization that helps nonprofit groups succeed in multicultural communities.