Rick Hutto served as Executive Assistant to then-Lieutenant Governor Zell Miller and was the Carter family's Appointments Secretary at the White House. Locally, he is an active member and director of the Macon Rotary Club, has served on the board of the Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce, and chaired the Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Rick is or has been a member of the boards of Macon Heritage Foundation, the Douglass Theatre, Macon Arts, the Hay House, and Historic Rose Hill Cemetery Foundation and was Governor Miller's appointee as Chairman of the Georgia Council for the Arts. He has raised funds for the Tubman Museum, the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, Mercer University and Wesleyan College.

An attorney and development consultant, he and his wife, Katherine, are active members of St. Joseph's Church and live in east Macon with their children, Katy and Martin. A published author and internationally-recognized lecturer on America’s Gilded Age, his latest published work is A Peculiar Tribe of People: Murder and Madness in the Heart of Georgia which is about a scandalous murder that happened in Macon in 1960.