Ken Hill is a native Kentuckian, who lives in Columbia, Kentucky with his wife of 36 years, Vickie and their 17 year-old son, Jake.
Ken attended Somerset Community College, and later worked in restaurant and retail management before beginning a career with the Kentucky State Police in 1986, a job from which he retired as a Detective Lieutenant in 2007. While still employed with the State Police, Ken was a licensed Real Estate Sales Associate and loved doing “grunt work” at estate auctions.
Ken gets bored easily, and has held over 25 different career positions and owned 7 different businesses, including a gun store and a country store famous for great catfish.
In 2008 Ken accepted the position of Compliance Officer for the Kentucky Board of Auctioneers, investigating complaints against Licensees, and managed to work his way up to CE Developer/Provider, and later to Executive Director. Ken was instrumental in reviving the agency, re-writing many antiquated laws, and bringing the agency back from the brink of insolvency. Politics being what it is, all Ken’s hard work was repaid by an incoming Governor, who seized a number of Board Agencies and basically ruined a good thing.
When he grew tired of the new system, Ken returned to private life and now works as a Principal Auctioneer and Real Estate Sales Associate, where he has won top sales awards for the past 3 years. In his spare time Ken is an 18th century re-enactor and historian, who hunts and competes with flintlock weapons and camps in 1700 fashion. He is also an avid runner, who completed his first half-marathon at age 53.