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Jennett Hill, ’98, has been elected president of the Lilly Endowment, effective February 2, 2022. The endowment’s chairman, president and CEO, N. Clay Robbins, made the announcement August 18 after the board of directors elected Hill. Robbins will remain the endowment’s chair and CEO after Hill takes on the role of president. She will remain a member of the board of directors, where she has served since 2015.

Hill, senior vice president and general counsel for Citizens Energy Group, joined Citizens in 2013. Previously, she had been a partner at the law firm of Faegre Baker Daniels, now Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath, where she had worked since 2001. Prior to joining the firm, she worked for the former Indiana Supreme Court justice and current Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law professor of practice, Frank Sullivan Jr.

While practicing nonprofit and tax-exempt law at Faegre Baker Daniels, Hill also provided legal and business guidance in the areas of corporate governance, intellectual property, the internet and privacy matters. The daughter of a U.S. Army officer, Hill led her law firm’s efforts in creating the Indiana Lawyers for Soldiers program, which offers pro bono legal services to deployed Indiana National Guard members and their families.

Hill is a member of the boards of the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation, Inc.; Arthur Jordan Foundation; Indiana Energy Association; and Riley Children’s Foundation. She is a past board member of Eskenazi Health Center, Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership, and Center for Leadership Development, among several other charitable organizations. She is a member of the American Law Institute, the leading independent organization that produces scholarly work to clarify, modernize and otherwise improve the law. Before launching her law career, Hill worked at IBM for more than a decade in a variety of positions, including systems engineer, systems design consultant and regional manager.