Terri Hill

Terri Lynn Hill (born May 3, 1959) is an American politician who serves as a member to the Maryland House of Delegates since 2015, first representing the 12th district from 2015 to 2023 and then district 12A since 2023.

A member of the Democratic Party, Hill previously ran for Congress in Maryland's 7th congressional district in the 2020 special election, in which she was defeated by Kweisi Mfume, and in Maryland's 3rd congressional district in 2024, losing to state senator Sarah Elfreth.

Hill was born in Philadelphia on May 3, 1959, where she was raised until her family moved to Columbia, Maryland when she was ten years old. Her mother, Ethel Hill, was a member of the Wilde Lake Village Board, and her sister, Donna Hill Staton, is a former Maryland deputy attorney general and former judge. Hill graduated from Wilde Lake Senior High School and attended Harvard University, where she earned an Bachelor's degree in bioelectric engineering in 1981, and Columbia University, where she earned her Doctor of Medicine degree in 1985.

After graduating from Columbia, Hill worked as a plastic surgeon for the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center until 1990, afterwards completing a fellowship in craniofacial surgery at the University of Miami in 1991. She worked as a surgeon for Operation Smile from 1995 to 1999 and in 2004. Following the September 11 attacks, Hill joined the Maryland Responds Medical Reserve Corps, but was never called on to serve.

Hill has operated her own solo medical practice since 1991, and started her own business, Visage Rejuvenation Spa LLC, in 2006. In March 2021, The Baltimore Sun reported that she had twice participated in a legislative hearing via Zoom while operating on a patient whom she said had given her permission to videoconference into the meetings. An investigation by the Maryland Board of Physicians found that one patient was unaware that she connected to a legislative hearing during surgery, and another was told that she would connect to the meeting 10 minutes before surgery, but no consent paperwork was filed. In October, she was fined $15,000 and reprimanded for again connecting from the operating room. The Joint Committee on Legislative Ethics also declined to charge her with ethics violations for participating in legislative hearings from the operating room.

In addition to her surgery practice, Hill also helps legislators and lobbyists at the Maryland State House with their health issues.

Hill first got involved in politics as an intern for U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes.

Hill was elected alongside newcomers Eric Ebersole and Clarence Lam, with whom she ran on a slate alongside state senator Edward Kasemeyer, in the 2014 Maryland House of Delegates election to succeed state delegates Steve DeBoy, James Malone, and Elizabeth Bobo. She was sworn in on January 14, 2015, and has been a member of the Health and Government Operations Committee during her entire tenure.