Gov. Rendell this week nominated H. Daniel Hill III, 51, to continue as a member of the Game Commission to fill the vacant District 1 seat, which includes Butler, Clarion, Crawford, Erie, Forest, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango and Warren counties.

An Erie resident, Hill associated with the Erie law firm of McCarthy, Martone and Peasley, specializing in the areas of business, real estate and estate planning. From June 1997 to December 1999, he was founder and managing partner of Miller-Hill Consulting.

Hill graduated from the Dickinson School of Law in 1983 with his juris doctorate. Before that, he earned his M.P.A. from the University of Georgia in1979 and his bachelor’s degree from Mercyhurst College in 1976.

An avid outdoorsman, Hill serves on the boards of the Pennsylvania Institute for Conservation Education and the Erie County Cooperative Extension Service. He is a member of Trout Unlimited, the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, the Ruffed Grouse Society, the Pennsylvania Steelheaders Association, Pheasants Forever, and SONS of Lake Erie. He is also a founding member of the Pennsylvania Fly Fishing Museum, and belongs to the American Society for Public Administration.

8/4/2006