Visiting Angels Franchise Owner Unanimously Selected as Chair of Cleveland Foundation Board

This week, Connie Hill-Johnson, owner and managing director of Visiting Angels Living Assistance Services in Cleveland, will chair her first Cleveland Foundation Board of Directors meeting, the world’s first community foundation started in 1914. Hill-Johnson’s unanimous choice as chairperson marks an exciting time in the foundation’s history. Hill-Johnson is in her 20th year as an in-home service provider assisting older adults to live as independently as possible by remaining safely in their own familiar home environment. She also spent five years as an institutional sales broker on an equity sales and trading desk for Merrill Lynch Capital Markets in Detroit.​

"We’re paying attention to racial inequalities and disparities in all aspects of our work to ensure we are operating in a way that reflects and values the full diversity of Greater Cleveland. We’re shifting to ‘with’ the community vs. ‘for’ the community,” Hill-Johnson said. “We are just getting started by listening and co-creating.”
 
Hill-Johnson earned a Master of Public Administration with an emphasis in health services administration from the University of Southern California and also holds a bachelor’s degree in speech communications from Case Western Reserve University. In addition to serving on a number of other boards across Northeast Ohio, she is past co-chair of the African American Philanthropy Committee of the Cleveland Foundation, a 2017 Crain’s Women of Note honoree, a 2020 YWCA Women of Achievement honoree, and was instrumental in The Soul of Philanthropy Cleveland, establishing a permanent exhibit entitled “Celebrate Those Who Give Black.”
 
HCAOA congratulates Connie!