Representative Janet T. Mills
District 78 | Janet Mills served as the elected District Attorney for Androscoggin, Oxford and Franklin Counties for nearly 15 years. Ms. Mills developed a strong reputation as a trial lawyer with emphasis on white collar and complex criminal cases. Ms. Mills joined Wright & Mills in 1995 and has since become involved in a wide range of trial work.
Ms. Mills has extensive appellate experience, having argued nearly one hundred cases in the Maine Supreme Court on issues ranging from search and seizure and the separation of powers to nonsupport laws and the controversial "right to die."
A native of
Farmington, Ms. Mills graduated
in 1976 from the Maine Law School
where she was a member of the Law
Review. As an Assistant Attorney
General from 1976 to 1980, she
prosecuted homicide, tax evasion
and major fraud cases
statewide.
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Ms. Mills has served
on a number of task forces and
commissions, including the Sentencing
Guidelines Commission, the Governor's
Commission to Revise the Bail Laws and the
Commission to Study the Future of Maine
Courts. For five years, Ms. Mills was
President of the Maine Prosecutors'
Association. She was co-founder of the
Maine Women's Lobby and has served on the
Maine Trial Lawyers Association Board of
Governors, Board of Directors of the Maine
Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers,
Western Maine Sustainable Communities
Project and the Margaret Chase Smith
Library Advisory Board.