BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Hillman provides psychological evaluations, consultations, and testimony in fitness to stand trial, insanity, substance abuse, fitness for duty for police, stalking, psychological autopsies, and risk for violence, including sexual violence. He has provided forensic services for over thirty years. He has a wide range of social service and administrative experience which includes administrative positions in corrections, inpatient state mental hospitals, and developmental disabilities.

Dr. Hillman’s clinical and administrative experience includes work with Illinois Department of Corrections. He was Chief of Mental Health Services for the Juvenile Division as well as Chief Psychologist at an urban coed juvenile detention facility. While in the Department of Corrections he worked with the governor's task force in the implementation of the Sexually Violent Persons Civil Commitment Act. As part of this work, he conducted Sexually Violent Person evaluations within IDOC across the state and testified in civil commitment hearings and trials.

Subsequent civil service positions included Chief Psychologist of an inpatient psychiatric hospital and the Director of Psychology Services at a residential facility for mentally retarded adults.

Throughout this career, Dr. Hillman has testified in courts for both the prosecution and defense in civil and criminal cases, made presentations for national meetings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and other professional organizations, reviewed books for the American Correctional Association, and provided volunteer work including work at the Heartland Alliance, Marjorie Kovler Center in Chicago, where he has worked with survivors of torture. He earned his B.S. and M.ED. at the University of Idaho and his Psy.D. at Forest Institute of Professional Psychology.