Linda G. Mills

Education Mills received a B.A. with a major in history and social thought from the University of California, Irvine in 1979, a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1983, an M.S.W. from San Francisco State University in 1986, and a Ph.D. in health policy in 1994 from Brandeis University.

Career

From 1994 to 1998, Mills was a lecturer at the UCLA School of Law and an assistant professor in the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research. In 2002, she was named vice provost (and in 2006 senior vice provost) for Undergraduate Education and University Life. She started as NYU's vice chancellor and senior vice provost for Global Programs and University Life in 2012. having succeeded Andrew D. Hamilton on July 1, 2023. She is the first Jewish person and first woman to serve as the university's president.

Research Mills' principal areas of scholarly focus are trauma, bias, and domestic violence. that have debuted at Tribeca Film Festival and the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival and have been shown in Abu Dhabi, Austria, and Tunisia, among other countries. Of Many: Then and Now has aired on ABC.