Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection

Document Type

Oral History

Publication Date

10-23-2000

Interview Number

MOH 216

Abstract

Dora Ann Mills was born in 1960 and raised in Farmington, Maine. Her father, S. Peter Mills II, was a prominent figure in Maine politics and law, a state senator and then the state’s U.S. attorney in the early 1970s. Her mother, Kay Mills, taught at Mt. Blue High School for many years. Her brothers, S. Peter III and Paul, and her sister, Janet Mills, are all attorneys in Maine as well as politically active. The Mills’ family was very involved in state and national politics, and they knew Margaret Chase Smith well and met Edmund S. Muskie on several occasions. After graduating from high school, Mills went to Bowdoin College, and then on to medical school at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. She worked in a missionary hospital in East Africa for a year and then did her internship and residency at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles. In 1992, she moved back to Farmington and practiced pediatrics there while working towards her master’s degree in public health. In 1996 she was appointed Maine’s chief medical officer and the director of the Bureau of Health.

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussions of: education and career background; Farmington, Maine community; father’s career; Margaret Chase Smith; Mills’ career choices; family political and social views; impressions of Senator Muskie; and Colonel William “Bill” Lewis.

Use Restrictions

Copyright Bates College. This transcript is provided for individual Research Purposes Only; for all other uses, including publication, reproduction and quotation beyond fair use, permission must be obtained in writing from: The Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, Bates College, 70 Campus Avenue, Lewiston, Maine 04240-6018.

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