Katie Hill

Katherine Lauren Hill (born August 25, 1987) is an American former politician and social services administrator from Agua Dulce, California.

Hill attended public schools in the Santa Clarita Valley and graduated from Saugus High School in 2004.

She attended California State University, Northridge where she earned a bachelor's degree in English and a Master of Public Administration.

Hill began her career as a policy advocate at People Assisting the Homeless (PATH), a nonprofit organization developing affordable and supportive services for the homeless in California.

Her husband allegedly worked there as well, and it is claimed Hill was his boss.

Later as the Executive Director for PATH, she raised the organization from a local force in Los Angeles County to one of the largest nonprofit providers of homes for the homeless in California.

Before the start of the 116th Congress, Hill and Colorado freshman U.S. Representative Joe Neguse were chosen as the freshman class representatives for the Democratic Caucus.

Knight won re-election in 2016.

Hill helped pass a ballot initiative, Measure H, during spring of 2017 to help alleviate homelessness by providing $1.2 billion in funds for homeless services in Los Angeles County.

Hill and her husband also raised goats in Agua Dulce, California.

On March 8, 2017, Hill announced her candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives for California's 25th congressional district, her home district, challenging incumbent Steve Knight, a Republican who had held the office since 2014.

She won her seat by defeating incumbent Republican Steve Knight in the 2018 midterm elections.

In 2018, Hill came in second place in the primary election for California's 25th Congressional District, allowing her to advance to the November 6, 2018, general election, where she again faced Knight.

In the general election, she defeated Knight by a 54% vs. 46% tally.

She was the subject of a documentary-style series of episodes that aired on the HBO show Vice News Tonight.

The series documented the Hill campaign as the "most millennial campaign ever" for Congress.

Vice News Tonight reportedly planned on doing a follow-up episode regarding Hill's advancement to the general election.

In the weeks leading up to the midterm election, Hill was endorsed by former President Barack Obama, who also attended a campaign event in Southern California leading up to the election.

Hill stated during her race for office that her top issues were addressing healthcare, rebuilding the middle class with policies that address income inequality and affordable housing, and getting big money out of politics.

She also stated her support for Medicare for All.

Hill reportedly ran a grassroots campaign that didn't accept money from corporate political action committees.

In the first quarter of 2018, she raised over $400,000, bringing her total to $1,092,025 raised, with more than 9,800 individual contributions and more than 5,100 individual donors.

Hill has supported comprehensive immigration reform while working towards greater funding and security along the southern border to counter primarily illegal drug trafficking and other various crimes.

She also has supported some form of physical barrier along certain areas of the southern border.

According to an October 2018 article in Rolling Stone, Hill is an unabashed gun owner: "'We have the highest number of law enforcement officials of any district in my county. And we have the second-highest number of veterans of any district in the country. On top of that, a quarter of our district is rural. So people do own guns. That's how my husband and I both grew up. Forty percent of our district owns a gun or lives in a household with a gun.'"

A member of the Democratic Party, she served as the U.S. representative for California's 25th congressional district from January to November 2019.

Hill is the former executive director of People Assisting the Homeless (PATH), a statewide non-profit organization working to end homelessness throughout California.

On October 18, 2019, RedState, a conservative blog, published a report on an alleged affair between Hill and her Legislative Director, which they both denied.

On October 23, 2019, Hill admitted that she had had an inappropriate relationship with a campaign staffer before she became a Member of Congress.

On October 27, 2019, she announced that she would resign from Congress.

Nude photos of Hill were published by the Daily Mail, a British tabloid.

Hill blamed the release of the photos on her ex-husband, called them an invasion of privacy and vowed to advocate for victims of revenge porn.

She left office on November 3, 2019.

In June 2021, Hill was ordered to pay US$220,000 to the Daily Mail and other media, to reimburse the legal fees these companies spent defending themselves against her accusations.

Hill was born in Abilene, Texas, and grew up in the Saugus section of Santa Clarita, California.

Her mother, Rachel (nee' Campbell), was a registered nurse, and her father, Michael Hill, was a police lieutenant.

On October 18, 2019, the conservative political blog RedState published allegations that Hill was involved in an extramarital affair with her young male staffer.

Hill denied such allegations, with Hill saying that her estranged husband, whom she described as abusive, was doing everything he could to humiliate her, and that her political opponents were exploiting a private matter for political gain.

Her husband denied the allegations of abuse.

Hill reached out to the Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi to deny the allegations.