Dr. Jill Hough is the director of the Small Urban & Rural Transit Center within the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute. She serves on the American Public Transportation Association's Blue Ribbon Panel on Workforce Development and on the Council of University Transportation Center's National Planning Committee for Workforce Development. She has recently completed two three-year terms on the Transit Cooperative Research Program Oversight Project Selection Committee (TOPS) which is a program through the National Academies of Science. Presently she is the Vice-Chair for the National Transit Institute's Advisory Board located at Rutgers the State University of New Jersey.