Frank M. Hull was born December 9, 1948, in Augusta, Georgia.  She graduated from ARC in 1966.  As a school leader, she participated in numerous clubs and activities, including Student Council, Yearbook, and Cheerleading.  She was also on the Homecoming Court and served as co-chair of the Senior Class Project which raised funds to build the bell tower in the football stadium.  She also received the DAR Citizenship Award for 1966. 

In 1970, Judge Hull received a B.A. Degree from Randolph-Macon Woman's College and in 1973, a J.D. degree cum laude from Emory Lay School. She was a Notes and Comments Editor on the Emory Law review and a member of the Order of the Coif and received the Wall Street Journal Award presented to one third-year law student for overall student achievement and leadership. She also served as a law clerk to Judge Elbert P. Tuttle on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

From 1974-84, Judge Hull was a litigation attorney in the Atlanta firm of Powell Goldstein Frazier & Murphy, where she specialized in commercial litigation and was the first female partner in 1980 with 150 attorneys in the firm at the time.

From 1984-94, Frank served as a State trial judge, first on the State Court and then the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia. From 1994-97, she served as a judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. As a trial judge for thirteen years, she presided over thousands of civil and criminal cases.

In 1997, President Bill Clinton nominated Judge Hull to serve as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, which hears federal civil and criminal appeals from Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. The U.S. Senate confirmed her appointment by a unanimous vote of 96-0. She has served on the Eleventh Circuit's appellate court since 1997.