Lyda Hill

Lyda Hill (born 1942) is an American investor and philanthropist. Early life Hill was born on September 17, 1942, in Dallas, Texas. Her father was Albert Galatyn Hill Sr. (1904–1988) and her mother, Margaret Hunt Hill (1915–2007). Her maternal grandfather was H.L. Hunt (1889–1974). She attended the Hockaday School, an all-girl boarding school in Dallas, from 1952 to 1960. She entered Stanford University in 1960, but soon left to attend Hollins University, a small liberal arts college for women in Virginia. She earned a degree in mathematics from Hollins in 1964 and received its Outstanding Alumnae Award in 2009. Career In 1967, at age 25, Hill launched Hill World Travel, a travel agency located in Dallas. She sold the company in 1982, by which time she had grown the company into the largest travel agency in the city and one of the largest in the country. A few years after starting her business, in 1970, she became President of Seven Falls, a tourist attraction near Colorado Springs, Colorado, where her family spent summers.