Fireside Chat with Representative French Hill

French Hill, Congressman

A ninth-generation Arkansan, Congressman French Hill has represented Arkansas’s Second Congressional District since January 2015. He serves as Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee in the 119th Congress.

In the 118th Congress, Chairman Hill served as the Committee’s Vice Chairman and as Chairman of the new subcommittee tasked with overseeing all areas related to digital assets and financial technology. Last Congress, he was also a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where he brought important expertise from his experiences in international economics and national security.

From 1982 until 1984, Chairman Hill served on the staff of then-U.S. Senator John Tower (R-TX), as well as on the staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs. He then went on to serve for President George H.W. Bush as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Corporate Finance from 1989 to 1991. In 1991, at the age of 34, President Bush appointed Chairman Hill to be Executive Secretary to the President’s Economic Policy Council (EPC), where he coordinated all White House economic policy. For his leadership and service at the Treasury and the White House, Chairman Hill was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas Brady in January 1993.

Prior to his congressional service, Chairman Hill worked in investments and banking for three decades. Most notably, he was founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Delta Trust & Banking Corporation from 1999 until 2014, when Delta Trust was sold to Simmons Bank.

Throughout his forty-year career, Chairman Hill has been active in civic affairs, serving as past President of the Rotary Club of Little Rock and as the 2013 Chairman of the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce. He has received numerous awards and recognition for his long-time support of the Boy Scouts of America, the arts and humanities, tourism, and historic preservation in Arkansas. He is an avid outdoorsman.

Chairman Hill is a magna cum laude graduate in Economics from Vanderbilt University. He and his wife, Martha, reside in Little Rock. The Hills have a daughter and a son.

Jessica Broughton

Jessica G. Broughton, Managing Director, is a financial services relationship manager with deep credit background, experienced in developing diverse growth strategies for clients against an ever evolving macro and regulatory landscape. She is currently a Managing Director in Financial Institutions Coverage (“FIC”) at BNP Paribas where she is responsible for managing some of the largest institutional clients, predominately within the bank sector.  In her role, she provides banking industry expertise, develops and manages the C-Suite and strategic relationships of her client set, and delivers customized solutions in partnership with CIB product stakeholders (Sales & Trading, Debt Capital Markets, Leverage Finance, Corporate Finance, Clearing and Custody). Prior to joining FIC, Jessica was a credit analyst for close to 10 years, most recently at BNP Paribas focused on Latin American financial institutions and Sovereigns. Prior to BNPP, Jessica spent almost two years at RBS covering North American financial institutions (primarily banks and broker dealers). She started her career in finance at Bear Stearns as a credit analyst. Jessica graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Economics and Hispanic Studies. She currently resides in Manhattan with her husband and two young sons.