Norbert S. Hill, Jr. is an enrolled citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and an elected member of the Oneida Nation Trust and Enrollment Committee. He retired in 2020 as Area Director of Education and Training for the Nation. Hill’s previous appointment was Vice President of the College of Menominee Nation for their Green Bay campus. Hill served as the executive director of the American Indian Graduate Center (AIGC) in NewMexico, a nonprofit organization providing funding for American Indians and Alaska Natives to pursue graduate and professional degrees. Previous positions include serving nearly 20 years as executive director of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES,) assistant dean of students at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and director of the American Indian Educational Opportunity Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
He founded Winds of Change and The American Indian Graduate, magazine publications of AISES and AIGC respectively. ln 2017 Hill published “The Great Vanishing Act: Blood Quantum and the Future of Native Nations.” A second anthology was released in 2025, “Beyond Blood Quantum: Refusal to Disappear.” Hill holds two honorary doctorates from Clarkson University (1996) and Cumberland College (1994) and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (1989).
Hill is the Chairman of the Rosa Minoka Hill Foundation and serves on the board of the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. Past board appointments include Environmental Defense Fund, chair and board member of the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian and the Wisconsin Historical Society. Today he resides on the Oneida reservation with his wife.