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Jill Brown-Hiltz (1950−) is the first black woman to serve as a pilot for a major U.S. airline. She started flying at the age of 17, and performed her first solo flight in a Piper J-3 Cub. Brown-Hiltz graduated from the University of Maryland and took a job teaching home economics. In 1974 she signed up to fly in the U.S. Navy, and was the first black woman admitted to the program, but left six months later with an honorable discharge. Brown-Hiltz then went on to work for Wheeler Airlines, the first black owned and operated airline, where she worked as a ticket clerk and occasional co-pilot until she earned the required amount of flight hours to fly for the airline as a pilot. In 1978, at 28 years old, she started flying for Texas International Airlines, becoming the first African-American woman to fly for a major U.S. airline. Later, Brown-Hiltz sued United Airlines in 1987 for racial and gender discrimination after she applied to work there three times and was never hired. The court sided in United Airlines' favor.
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