Cllr Norman Hillis is an

Ulster Unionist Party The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. The party was founded in 1905, emerging from the Irish Unionist Alliance in Ulster. Under Edward Carson, it led unionist opposition to the Irish Home Rule m ...

(UUP) politician from

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, who was a

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(MLA) for East Londonderry from 2003 to 2007. Hillis was educated at

Coleraine Academical Institution Coleraine Academical Institution (CAI and styled locally as Coleraine Inst) was a voluntary grammar school for boys in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Coleraine Academical Institution occupied a site on the Castlerock Road, ...

and the former Coleraine Technical College and has been active in the business community of

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where he has been president of the resort's Chamber of Commerce and Coleraine

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. He is a UUP councillor on Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council (Formerly

Coleraine Borough Council Coleraine Borough Council was a local council mainly in County Londonderry and partly in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. It merged with Ballymoney Borough Council, Limavady Borough Council and Moyle District Council in May 2015 under local ...

) elected in 1993, and was

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of Coleraine from 1999 to 2000, and from 2010–11. Hillis was elected as a member for the Northern Ireland Assembly constituency of East Londonderry but lost his seat in the 2007 election. He is UUP Representative on the Confederation of European Councillors and spokesperson for the party on matters relating to North/South and East/West issues. Hillis is a Member of Coleraine'
District Policing Partnership (DPP)
and is a Justice of the Peace. He is a former Chairman of the Coleraine branch of the

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