Governor · Maine

Janet Mills

Governor of Maine

Janet Mills is the governor of Maine, a Democrat sworn in as the state's 75th governor on January 2, 2019. She was previously Maine's attorney general, a member of the Maine House of Representatives and a district attorney.

Background

Biography

Janet Trafton Mills was born on December 30, 1947, in Farmington, Maine. She graduated from Mt. Blue High School in Farmington, the University of Massachusetts at Boston and the University of Maine School of Law.

Her official biography says she entered public service as an assistant attorney general, prosecuting homicides and other major crimes, and was later elected district attorney for Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties. She co-founded the Maine Women's Lobby and won election to the Maine House of Representatives in 2002. Legislators elected her attorney general of Maine in 2008, and she held that office from 2009 to 2011 and again from 2013 to 2019.

Mills was sworn in as the 75th governor of Maine on January 2, 2019. The National Governors Association lists her as a Democrat whose second term began on January 4, 2023.

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