“From the Classroom”
College Professor / Police Academy Instructor
Ray Hill is a retired Novato Police Lieutenant and holds the position of Professor Emeritus at Santa Rosa Junior College. He has taught Laws of Evidence, Laws of Arrest and Search & Seizure in the POST Basic Law Enforcement Course and in Advanced Officer Training – Legal Update for North Bay officers for 48 years. He is the author of the California Criminal Evidence Guide: A Handbook for the Criminal Justice Student, a textbook adopted in California community college Administration of Justice courses statewide since 1988.
Ray also retired as a Firefighter/EMT with the Bodega Bay Fire Protection District and Firefighter/Administrative Support for the Sonoma County Fire District, where he served for over 20 years.
Ray lives in Bodega Bay and enjoys time with his chocolate Labradors (Mags and Abby), working on his family’s 115-year-old Marin County ranch and steelhead / chinook fishing on Oregon Rivers.
Education
- A.S. Police Science
- B.S. Administration of Justice
- M.P.A. Public Administration
Experience
- Professor Emeritus – Santa Rosa Junior College
- Police Academy Instructor – Santa Rosa Training Center
- Bodega Bay Fire Protection District - Firefighter/EMT (Ret).
- Police Lieutenant, Novato Police Department (Ret.)
- P.O.S.T. Law Enforcement Certificate
