Early Life and Education
Mills is the daughter of a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, and grew up on Army bases all over the world, including Belgium, West Germany, and the U.S. She attended Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, Maryland. Mills received her B.A. from the University of Virginia in 1987, where she was Phi Beta Kappa and a member of the Z Society, and her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1990, where she was elected to Stanford Law Review.
She worked as an associate at the powerful Washington law firm of Hogan & Hartson; while there, she represented school districts seeking to achieve racial integration per Brown v. Board of Education.
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