A post office will be renamed to honor Margaret Hill, a longtime San Bernardino educator, school board member and Black community leader.
The San Bernardino post office at 1663 E. Date Place, will be named for Hill, who died in 2021 at age 81.
The Del Rosa Post Office will now be called the Dr. Margaret B. Hill Post Office Building, a news release states.
Hill, a Virginia native who moved to the city in 1969, started teaching in 1971 at San Bernardino High School. She later was the school’s assistant principal.
Hill retired from the San Bernardino City Unified School District in 2003, after serving the last 16 years of her career in the district as San Andreas High School’s principal.
Hill won a seat on the San Bernardino City Unified school board in 2011 and was set to serve through 2024.
The bill to rename the post office, signed by President Joe Biden in late November, was put forward by Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-San Bernardino, in March 2022. It was reintroduced in February 2023 and passed the House and Senate with unanimous, bipartisan support, the release states.
“Dr. Margaret Hill was the heartbeat of the San Bernardino community and touched the lives of every person she met,” Aguilar said in a Thursday, Dec. 12, news release. “She dedicated her life to making our community stronger through her work as an educator and youth empowerment leader.”
Hill’s niece Erika Johnson said in the release that the family is “beyond excited to finally see Dr. Margaret Hill’s legacy honored at our local post office.”
“… It is our hopes that when people see Dr. Margaret Hill’s name it will encourage them to lead with kindness, love and to continue pursuing their dreams to make the community a better place,” Johnson said. “We take pride in knowing that her legacy will continue to bring light to those in the Inland Empire.”
