J. French Hill

Republican · AR-2 · U.S. House

Bio

James French Hill is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Arkansas's 2nd congressional district since 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party.

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Record of service

In office: 11.6 years
First took office: 2015 (6 terms)
Seniority: 127 of 437 by time served
Age: 69

District offices

Little Rock, AR · 501-324-5941
Conway, AR · 501-902-5733

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

$6.5M

2020

$6.4M

2021

$7.8M

2022

$16.7M

2023

$17.2M

2024

$18.2M

2025

$17.5M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $10.1M – $25.2M
Liabilities: $115k – $300k
Net worth: $9.8M – $25.1M
Since 2019: +$11.0M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 137 assets reported

J French Hill - Revocable Trust ⇒ Simmons First National Corporation (SFNC)$1.0M – $5.0M

HILL 2012 TRUST ⇒ Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (APD)$500k – $1.0M

HILL 2012 TRUST ⇒ Walmart Inc. (WMT)$500k – $1.0M

HILL FAMILY FUND ⇒ Eli Lilly and Company (LLY)$500k – $1.0M

J French Hill - IRA ⇒ Berkshire Hathaway Inc. New (BRK.B)$500k – $1.0M

HILL 1998 TRUST ⇒ JPMorgan Tax Free MM Fund - Premier Shares (VXPXX)$250k – $500k

HILL 1998 TRUST ⇒ Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC)$250k – $500k

HILL 1998 TRUST ⇒ Procter & Gamble Company (PG)$250k – $500k

HILL 1998 TRUST ⇒ SA KRUGERRAND COINS$250k – $500k

HILL 2012 TRUST ⇒ First Trust Rising Dividend Achievers ETF (RDVY)$250k – $500k

HILL 2012 TRUST ⇒ JPMorgan Tax Free MM Fund - Premier Shares (VXPXX)$250k – $500k

HILL 2012 TRUST ⇒ Murphy USA Inc. (MUSA)$250k – $500k

HILL 2012 TRUST ⇒ SA KRUGERRAND COINS$250k – $500k

J French Hill - Revocable Trust ⇒ First Trust Morningstar ETF (FDL)$250k – $500k

J French Hill - Revocable Trust ⇒ Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF - DNQ (VYM)$250k – $500k

HILL 1998 TRUST ⇒ 3M Company (MMM)$100k – $250k

HILL 1998 TRUST ⇒ Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM)$100k – $250k

HILL 1998 TRUST ⇒ Insured Cash Account$100k – $250k

HILL 1998 TRUST ⇒ International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)$100k – $250k

HILL 1998 TRUST ⇒ Merck & Company, Inc. Common Stock (MRK)$100k – $250k

HILL 1998 TRUST ⇒ Pepsico, Inc. (PEP)$100k – $250k

HILL 1998 TRUST ⇒ PotlatchDeltic Corporation (PCH)$100k – $250k

HILL 1998 TRUST ⇒ Regions Financial Corporation (RF)$100k – $250k

HILL 1998 TRUST ⇒ Simmons First National Corporation (SFNC)$100k – $250k

HILL 1998 TRUST ⇒ Visa Inc. (V)$100k – $250k

HILL 2012 TRUST ⇒ AbbVie Inc. (ABBV)$100k – $250k

HILL 2012 TRUST ⇒ Berkshire Hathaway Inc. New (BRK.B)$100k – $250k

HILL 2012 TRUST ⇒ Coca-Cola Company (KO)$100k – $250k

HILL 2012 TRUST ⇒ T-Mobile US, Inc. (TMUS)$100k – $250k

HILL FAMILY FUND ⇒ American Express Company (AXP)$100k – $250k

J French Hill - IRA ⇒ First Trust Small Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund (FYT)$100k – $250k

J French Hill - IRA ⇒ VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF (MOAT)$100k – $250k

J French Hill - Revocable Trust ⇒ Insured Cash Account$100k – $250k

J French Hill - Revocable Trust ⇒ Markel Corporation (MKL)$100k – $250k

Martha M Hill - Revocable Trust ⇒ Simmons First National Corporation (SFNC)$100k – $250k

Martha M Hill - SEP IRA ⇒ Markel Corporation (MKL)$100k – $250k

Payne Hill Irrevocable Trust (Beneficiary IRA) ⇒ Berkshire Hathaway Inc. New (BRK.B)$100k – $250k

HILL 1998 TRUST ⇒ AT&T Inc. (T)$50k – $100k

HILL 1998 TRUST ⇒ Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (FIS)$50k – $100k

HILL 1998 TRUST ⇒ Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. (FBIN)$50k – $100k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.82

Healthcare

R+0.70

Immigration & Border

R+0.89

Guns

R+0.86

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+0.99

Environment & Energy

R+0.82

Crime & Policing

R+0.78

Defense & Veterans

R+0.80

Economy & Labor

R+0.81

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.68

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.09

Education

R+0.71

Government & Democracy

R+0.85

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

J. French Hill's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

91%Closest

65%

29%

20%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

16%

Communist Party USA

15%

On the political map

J. French Hill (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Hillsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members

Committees

House Committee on Financial ServicesChaircenter · 53 members
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligencecenter · 27 members
National Security Agency and Cyber National Intelligence Enterprise

Most and least aligned members

Treating Hill's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.