Jill Nolin has spent nearly 15 years reporting on state and local government in four states, focusing on policy and political stories and tracking public spending. She has spent the last five years chasing stories in the halls of Georgia’s Gold Dome, earning recognition for her work showing the impact of rising opioid addiction on the state’s rural communities. Before that, Nolin was a city hall reporter at the Virginian-Pilot and the Montgomery Advertiser, where her work on an abandoned and neglected historic African American cemetery prompted city officials to take action. A south Alabama native, Nolin is a graduate of Troy University, where she studied journalism and English.