Juliette Hill

Juliette Estevez Hill is a 1996 graduate of the Department of Mining and Minerals Engineering at Virginia Tech. Since 2011, she has been the accident investigation program manager for the Mine Safety and Health Administration's Directorate of Technical Support, where her main responsibilities are to coordinate and manage the technical portions of the investigations into fatal and serious, non-fatal mining accidents. she joined MSHA Technical Support in 2003 and worked in the quality assurance and electrical safety divisions prior to her current position. 

Hill began her mining career as an engineer trainee in CONSOL Energy’s summer student program in the company's Virginia operations, while completing her degree. After graduation, she was hired as a foreman at the Buchanan No. 1 Mine.  In this role, she served as an outby foreman and the fill-in section foreman, rotating between three longwall development sections.

Hill joined Frontier-Kemper Constructors in 2000 as the project engineer for the Pattiki II Project in Southern Illinois. In this role, she was part of the management team responsible for the planning and construction of a 30-foot-diameter, 875-foot-deep service shaft with bottom station. 

Hill and her husband, William, also a graduate of the department, live in Wheeling, West Virginia, and have two children.