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E.D. Hill was born Edith Ann Tarbox in Dripping Springs, Texas. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Holcomb Tarbox of Lakeway, Texas. Her father had formerly been vice president of maintenance for the Far East region at Trans World Airlines.

Hill holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Texas where she was a member of Delta Gamma Sorority. Hill won a local Emmy Award for Outstanding News Special while working for WHDH-TV in Boston (1990—91), and has also received a Golden Quill Award for live spot news reporting. She also attended the University of Minnesota Duluth.

In 1989 , while a news anchor at WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh, she was married to Marc Philip Weill, at the time a vice president of Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Company in New York. They had children and divorced. Her second marriage was with J David Donahey. They had children and also divorced .

After two years of dating, she married her third husband, venture capitalist Joe Hill, in March 2002. He has three children from a previous marriage. Together they had a daughter and a son. Hill has been married three times, taking her husband's surname professionally each time, and so she has worked in television under five different names:

1. Edye Tarbox (maiden name)
2. Edye Grant while working for KXXV. She was asked not to use the name Tarbox due to the station having already hired a sports anchor named Stu Bowersox, and station management felt that the two unusual names would be a distraction.
3. E.D. Weill
4. E.D. Donahey
5. E.D. Hill

Hill says she's a "primary-voting Democrat".

Hill was a V.J. for VH1 in the mid-1980s, under the name Edye Tarbox. She later became an anchorwoman.

Hill joined the Fox News network in 1998 as anchor for Fox and Friends, which she was on from 1998 to 2006. Hill later moved to the 2:00 p.m. hour after serving as host of the 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon block of Fox News Live from 2006 until her show America's Pulse was cancelled in 2008. She also co-hosted Bill O'Reilly's Radio Factor for a while. She had also filled in for Bill O'Reilly on The O'Reilly Factor.

On Friday June 6, 2008, Hill asked whether a fist bump between then-presidential candidate Barack Obama, and his wife Michelle, after the final 2008 Presidential Democratic primaries was a "terrorist fist jab." Hill, introducing an upcoming discussion before a commercial break, posited that the gesture was either "A fist bump? A pound? [or] A terrorist fist jab?," but never explained the term when the segment continued after the break. The incident set off a controversy among bloggers and TV commentators . Hill apologized for her comments the next day . The next week, Fox News announced that Hill's show America's Pulse had been canceled. Martha McCallum's show The Live Desk would become two hours (1-3 p.m.), and Trace Gallagher would become a co-host with Martha.

In November 2008, after the general election, it was announced that Hill's contract with Fox would not be renewed. She would continue with the network until her contract expired. Senior Vice President of Programming at Fox Bill Shine says that he "chose not to renew E.D.'s latest contract" but noted that "Hill has been a valued contributor to the success of FNC over the years, and we wish her all the best".

On October 14, 2008, Hill was a guest co-host of the popular ABC daytime show "The View", then returned to co-host again on September 23 and 25, 2009, while Elisabeth Hasselbeck was on maternity leave and most recently on July 28, 2010 while Barbara Walters was on leave..

In November 2005 William Morrow published Hill's first book, a collection of personal profiles entitled Going Places: How America's Best and Brightest Got Started Down the Road of Life. Her next book, I'm Not Your Friend, I'm Your Parent, was published in 2007.