Lillian Mills

Lillian F. Mills is an American accountant and academic administrator.

Mills completed bachelor's and master's degrees in accounting at the University of Florida in 1980 and 1981, respectively,[1] before moving to the University of Michigan to earn a doctorate in the subject, where she was advised by Joel Slemrod and published the dissertation Essays in Corporate Tax Compliance and Financial Reporting in 1996.[2] She was a research fellow at the United States Department of the Treasury and worked as a certified public accountant for two firms from 1981 to 1989 before joining the University of Arizona faculty in 1997. She taught at UArizona until 2005, and accepted a teaching position at the University of Texas at Austin the following academic year.[3] At UTAustin, Mills held the Beverly H. and William P. O'Hara Chair in Business as well as the Lois and Richard Folger Dean's Leadership Chair.[4] She became interim dean of the McCombs School of Business in April 2020, upon Jay Hartzell's elevation to interim president of the University of Texas at Austin.[5] In June 2021, Mills was appointed to the deanship permanently,[6] and is the first woman to serve in that position.[7]