Martha Leech Hill

Martha graduated in 1979 with a bachelor’s in biology. While at Earlham she was a student staff member in the Joseph Moore Museum which she credits as launching her career in museum work. She received her M.Ed. from the University of Florida in 1982 and her Ph.D. in Education from Purdue University in 2002. Martha served as director of education and programming at museums in Flagstaff AZ, and Dayton OH, and from 2003 she was at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis from which she retired as vice president for programming in 2019. Although museums were foremost in her career, Martha also worked in higher education and served as the associate director, then director, of alumni relations at Earlham in the mid to late 80’s and as alumni and parent relations director in the early 90’s at Saint Joseph’s College in Rensselaer, IN.

Martha was elected to the Clinton Prairie School Board and served on the boards of the Clinton County Foundation for Youth and the Colfax-Perry Township Library. Her volunteer service also included serving on the board of the Cope Environmental Center. Martha joined the Earlham Alumni Council in 2018 and serves on the alumni awards and executive committees. She and her husband Michael, a retired Purdue University veterinary professor, live on a 54-acre farm outside Colfax, IN. They have two sons—Thomas, EC Class of 2019 and Charles, a 2014 graduate of Wabash College.