Christina B. Lee Hill

After having spent 18 years inside the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) assigned to some of its most complex and sensitive labor matters, Christina now brings that insider’s knowledge to her clients in the firm’s Labor Management Group where she regularly advises clients on union-related issues, including collective-bargaining, union organizing campaigns, and the day-to-day challenges that occur with an organized workforce.

Christina was a Senior Trial Attorney at the Board who led over 670 unfair labor practice and representation investigations, litigated more than 50 cases with 17 going on-the-record, and further litigated Section 10(j) proceedings in federal court.

Today, Christina has widened her traditional labor law lens to also include drafting Affirmative Action Plans according to regulations published by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) for veterans and persons with a disability. Additionally, Christina regularly defends clients before various federal and state administrative agencies, leads sensitive workplace investigations, provides daily employment law counseling, and conducts trainings. Her experience spans a wide range of industries, including construction, franchising, hospitality, healthcare, manufacturing, education, logistics, and service-based businesses. With appearances before the NLRB, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Illinois Department of Human Rights, mediators, federal court, and at the bargaining table, clients who come to Christina for their traditional labor law needs leave having relied on her for a full-service labor and employment law experience.

Christina earned her BA and MPPA from Mississippi State University and her JD from Hamline University School of Law, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Hamline Journal of Public Law & Policy. She is admitted in Illinois and Wisconsin and before the Northern District of Illinois’s trial bar. She is a member of the National Association of Parliamentarians, serves as a parliamentarian for a local nonprofit, and regularly volunteers as a judge for the William E. McGee National Civil Rights Moot Court Competition hosted by Mitchell Hamline School of Law. While at the Board, in 2023, she founded Region 13’s Leadership Wellness Summit, an annual, half-day CLE-program that addresses mental health, work-life balance, and career development for federal employees. That Summit was the first of its kind for the Agency and earned Christina the NLRB’s inaugural Honorary Award for Excellence in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility.

In short, Christina’s practice is grounded in results as demonstrated by the below published decisions from her time in private practice and while serving first-chair as a prosecutor at the Board.

• Infusion Management Group d/b/a The Signature Room at the 95th and The Signature Lounge at The 96th, 374 NLRB No. 125 (2026), successfully defended against Region 13’s Motion for Default Judgment that violated her client’s rights of due process, resulting in the subsequent dismissal of the Amended Consolidated Complaint, withdrawal of the Notice of Hearing, and the withdrawal of Case 13-CA-328071.
• Am. Tower Corp., 2026 NLRB LEXIS 57 (2026) – successfully prosecuted, in part, the unlawful maintenance of a confidentiality agreement that prohibited employees from discussing their wages and an employer’s implied threat to terminate an employee in response to him raising workplace concerns.
• Accurate Metal Fabricating, Inc., 2026 NLRB LEXIS 2 (2026); adopted by the Board in 2026 NLRB LEXIS 106 (2026) – successfully prosecuted an employer’s unlawful recognition of a union that lacked majority support and its discriminatory wage increases that favored one bargaining group over another.
• Amazon.com Servs. LLC, 2025 NLRB LEXIS 213 (2025) – successfully prosecuted, in part, an employer’s overbroad solicitation policy, the employer’s repeated and unlawful refusal to allow its off-duty employees to access its parking lots for the purpose of engaging in Section 7 activities, and the employer’s unlawful refusal to allow a terminated employee access to its parking lot for the purpose of distributing union campaign materials.
• Reliance Plumbing, Sewer & Drainage, Inc., 2025 NLRB LEXIS 191 (2025) – successfully prosecuted extensive pre- and post-election violations that included coercive conduct, constructive discharge, unilateral changes, and surface bargaining. Decision imposed a Mar-Jac remedy extending the union certification year by 12 months with the companion 12-month decertification bar.
• List Indus., 373 NLRB No. 146 (2024) – successfully prosecuted an employer’s unlawful response to its employees’ organizing campaign in which the Board issued the extraordinary remedy of a Gissel bargaining order after finding the employer unlawfully terminated key union organizers and engaged in multiple violations that undermined employee free choice.
• Starbucks, 2024 NLRB LEXIS 67 (2024) – successfully prosecuted the unlawful termination of two lead organizers who were campaigning their peers to organize and were engaging in other protected concerted activities designed to improve their terms and conditions of employment.
• Hitterman v. List Indus., 610 F.Supp 3d 1105 (N.D. Ind. 2022) – successfully litigated Section 10(j) federal injunction, obtaining a commanding victory that ordered the interim reinstatement of terminated organizers and an interim Gissel bargaining order.
• Zeigler Ford, 370 NLRB No. 41 (2020) – successfully prosecuted case where the Board found that the employer unlawfully implemented its “last, best and final offer,” made unilateral benefit changes, and engaged in direct dealing.
• Altura Communications Sols., LLC, 369 NLRB No. 85 (2020) – successfully prosecuted case where the Board determined the employer was bargaining in bad faith and ordered the employer to engage in good faith bargaining, rescind its unilateral changes made during bargaining, offer reinstatement to those who accepted the unilateral buyouts, and make employees whole.
• Cadillac of Naperville, 368 NLRB No. 3 (2019); affirmed 371 NLRB No. 140 (2022) – successfully prosecuted employee discipline case under the evolving Atlantic Steel standard for abusive workplace misconduct where the worker who called the dealership’s owner a “stupid jack off” in Greek was determined to have been unlawfully terminated.
• Omni Commer. Lighting, Inc., 364 NLRB 612 (2016) – successfully prosecuted CA/CB case where the Board found that both the union and employer had violated the Act. The employer unlawfully terminated its worker in retaliation of him mistakenly enforcing a collective-bargaining agreement that did not apply to him, and the union failed and refused to represent that member fairly in his labor dispute with his employer, including the union’s discriminatory refusal to grieve his related termination.
• Minteq Int’l. Inc., 364 NLRB 721 (2016) – successfully prosecuted a case initially dismissed during the region’s investigation, proving unlawful the unilateral implementation of a non-compete and confidentiality agreement.
• Amcor Rigid Plastics, 2015 NLRB LEXIS 826 (2015); adopted by the Board in NLRB LEXIS 942 (2015) - successfully prosecuted case where it was determined that the employer failed and refused to execute a written collective bargaining agreement and ordered the employer to execute the contract agreed upon by the parties.
• Cook County Sch. Bus, 2013 NLRB LEXIS 101 (2013) - Hearing Officer, Cook County School Bus, 13-UD-079769 (2013), Board affirmed Christina’s ruling ordering a re-run election due to the union’s objectionable conduct, which included voter intimidation and veiled threats of retaliation to unit employees for their support of removing the union security clause.

HONORS, MEMBERSHIPS, AND PUBLICATIONS

• Latest Updates at the NLRB, Laner Muchin’s Spring Employment Law Conference, Presenter, (5/2026)
• Bloom Where Planted, National Labor Relations Board, Region 13’s Leadership Summit, Chair (2025)
• Let’s Grow Together: Developing Your Growth Mindset - Making Room for Mistakes, National Labor Relations Board, Region 13’s Leadership Summit, Chair (2024)
• When We All Rise, National Labor Relations Board, Region 13’s Leadership Summit, Chair (2023)
• Who is the Employer, Hot Topics in Contemporary Labor Relations Law Conference, Moderator, Kent Law School, (2018)
• Unfair Labor Practice Mediation Project, Hot Topics in Contemporary Labor Relations Law Conference, Moderator/Panelist, Kent Law School, (2016)
• The Contingent Workforce: Could your client be a joint employer following the Browning Ferris decision? If so, how can you best advise the client?, Panelist, National Employment Law Council, (2016)
• Recent Updates on Labor Law, Panelist, National Association of African Americans in Human Resources (2015)

• Hamline Journal of Public Law & Policy
  • Editor-in-Chief, 2006-2007
  • Associate, 2005-2006
• Member, American Bar Association
  • Labor and Employment Law Section
  • Litigation Section
• Member, Wisconsin Bar Association
• Member, National Association of Parliamentarians