General Info

Hill Research Consultants is a full-service public opinion and marketing research firm organized in 1988. Serving a nationwide clientele from offices in The Woodlands, Texas, the firm specializes in research on politics and public affairs, litigation, education, transportation, real estate, healthcare, telecommunications, sports marketing, and corporate image. In addition to survey research and focus groups, the firm provides a wide range of on-line research services for developing competitive intelligence. Clients of the firm include leading elected public officials, major corporations, large public school districts, universities, accounting and law firms, management consultants, professional sports franchises, trade and membership associations, advertising agencies and public relations firms. Campaigns and Elections magazine recognizes Hill Research Consultants as a member of the Campaigns and Elections 100, the nation's elite consulting firms. Dr. David B. Hill David B. Hill, HRC Director, received his Ph.D. from The Florida State University in 1975. His graduate studies included the prestigious methodology training program at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Dr. Hill spent ten years as a faculty member at Kansas State University, Florida Atlantic University and in a tenured position at Texas A&M University where he also served as Director of the Public Policy Resources Laboratory and founding Director of The Texas Poll. In 1984, he became a principal in Tarrance, Hill, Newport & Ryan before founding his present firm. In 1991, CAMPAIGN magazine named Dr. Hill the second most effective major political consultant overall, and best political pollster in the nation. In addition, CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS magazine named him one of its 1991 class of "Rising Stars" in American political campaigns. CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS singled him out as one of the "Big Winners" of the 1998 campaign election cycle, as well, for directing Peter Fitzgerald's victory over Carol Moseley-Braun in the Illinois U.S. Senate race. A scholar as well as a campaign operative, Dr. Hill is the author or co-author of many academic journal articles as well as well as a book, chapters in books and monographs. He has served as a member of the editorial advisory board of THE PUBLIC PERSPECTIVE, a publication of The Roper Center at the University of Connecticut. Dr. David Hill writes a weekly column on polling and campaigns for The Hill, a newspaper for and about the United State Congress. Stephen N. White, HRC Assistant Director, was awarded his Ph.D. in economics by Texas A&M University in 1985. Prior to joining HRC in 1988, he served as director of operations for Tarrance & Associates ; director of computing and statistics for Tarrance, Hill, Newport & Ryan and as a research associate at the Public Policy Resources Laboratory at Texas A&M. Dr. White has also authored articles in academic journals. David Benzion is a graduate of Antioch College. Prior to joining HRC, Benzion worked as a producer and researcher for a top-rated news-talk radio program in Houston. He heads up opposition research, as well as policy and online research as a Research Analyst at HRC