XaCadene Averyllis Hill was born on 12 August 1909 in Yazoo City, Mississippi to Pinck Mun Effinger Hill (1869-1940) and Eliza L. (Johnson) Hill (1871-1934). XaCadene had three brothers [Lontine Hill (1896-1968), Pahio M. E. Hill (1901-1968), and Tazonia Mozart Hill (1903-1951)] and two sisters [Brevy E. Hill Lilly Miller (1898-1951) and Zanzye Hertizine Hill (1906-1935).] The Hill family moved from Mississippi to Lincoln, Nebraska after the 1910 census where Pinck was a mail carrier. All three Hill daughters pursued higher education and Zanzye Hill became the first African American female law graduate at the University of Nebraska. XaCadene earned a degree in zoology at the University of Nebraska in 1933 and a medical degree from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee in 1937. She practiced medicine first in Prairie View, Texas and then moved to St. Louis where she accepted a post as a physician with the St. Louis Public Schools. Dr. Hill also opened a general practice which she operated from 1945 until approximately 1990, mostly at 1417 Franklin Street from 1950 to 1971. She worked at St. Mary’s Infirmary, at Peoples Hospital where she was chairman of the medical records committee (beginning in 1962), and at Homer G. Phillips Hospital where she was clinical director (1973-1979). Dr. Hill was a member of the American Medical Association, the St. Louis Medical Society, the National Medical Association, and the NAACP. Dr. XaCadene Hill married Walter William Fox (1906-1969). The couple had one son, Walter W. Fox, Jr. Dr. Fox died in St. Louis on March 19, 2002.