45 Facts About Janet Mills

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Janet Trafton Mills was born on December 30,1947 and is an American politician and lawyer serving as the 75th governor of Maine since January 2019.

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Janet Mills previously served as the Maine Attorney General on two occasions.

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Janet Mills was the first woman to hold the position.

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Janet Mills's party nominated her for governor in the 2018 election, and she won, defeating Republican Shawn Moody and independent Terry Hayes.

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Janet Mills's mother was a schoolteacher and Congregationalist, while her father was a lawyer who served as US Attorney for Maine in the 1950s.

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Janet Mills briefly attended Colby College before moving to San Francisco, where she worked as a nursing assistant in a psychiatric hospital.

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Janet Mills later enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Boston, from which she graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in 1970.

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8.

Janet Mills graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1976 and was admitted to the bar.

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Janet Mills was Maine's first female criminal prosecutor and was an assistant attorney general from 1976 to 1980, prosecuting homicides and other major crimes.

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Janet Mills was the first woman district attorney in New England.

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In 1994, Janet Mills was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Congress in the Democratic primary to replace then-Representative Olympia Snowe.

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Janet Mills co-founded the Maine Women's Lobby and was elected to its board of directors in 1998.

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In 2000, Janet Mills served as a field coordinator for Bill Bradley's 2000 presidential campaign in Maine.

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Janet Mills was elected to her fourth term when the Joint Convention convened in December 2008 to elect the new attorney general.

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Janet Mills became Maine's 55th attorney general on January 6,2009.

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When Republicans gained control of the Maine legislature in 2010, Janet Mills, was not reelected.

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Janet Mills joined the law firm Preti Flaherty in February 2011 as a lawyer with the firm's Litigation Group in its Augusta office.

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Janet Mills was reelected on December 3,2014, despite the Maine Senate coming under Republican control.

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Republican Governor Paul LePage opposed Janet Mills being attorney general, due to many disputes between them over the legality of some of LePage's policies.

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LePage did so after Janet Mills twice declined to represent him in matters she determined had little legal merit, though she approved his requests for outside lawyers.

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On May 1,2017, LePage sued Janet Mills, asserting that she had abused her authority by refusing to represent the state in legal matters, or taking a legal view contrary to the LePage administration's.

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On July 10,2017, Janet Mills announced that she would seek the Democratic nomination for governor of Maine in 2018.

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Janet Mills received over 320,000 votes, more than any governor in the state's history.

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Janet Mills's campaign was aided in part by a Democratic super PAC that financed Maine-themed ads meant to attract young voters on social media.

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Janet Mills faced no opposition in the primaries, making her the Democratic nominee.

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26.

Janet Mills received over 373,000 votes, breaking the record for the most votes ever cast for a gubernatorial candidate, set four years earlier.

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Janet Mills dropped work requirements for Medicaid that LePage requested toward the end of his tenure and that had the Trump Administration's approval.

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Janet Mills said the work requirements "leave more Maine people uninsured without improving their participation in the workforce".

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Janet Mills revived the tradition of Maine governors attending Martin Luther King Day commemoration events in Portland, doing so in 2019.

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In September 2019, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres asked Janet Mills to speak at the General Assembly on climate change.

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Janet Mills told world leaders at the UN that she intends to make Maine carbon neutral by 2045.

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Janet Mills was the first sitting Maine governor to address the General Assembly.

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On June 11,2021, Janet Mills announced the end of the state of emergency started on March 15,2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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On June 24,2021, Janet Mills vetoed seven bills, including one that would have closed the Long Creek Youth Development Center, a juvenile prison.

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Janet Mills identifies as a moderate Democrat and has often broken the party line with other members of her caucus.

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Janet Mills has taken steps to expand access to abortion procedures, signing legislation to mandate that both public and private insurance agencies include abortion procedures within the scope of their coverage.

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Janet Mills has expressed her opposition to the decriminalization of small possessions of drugs.

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Janet Mills has enacted regulations to curb the use of materials that harm the environment.

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Janet Mills signed into law a ban on the use of styrofoam containers by various industries within the state.

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Janet Mills has enacted regulatory standards for the quality of water on Indigenous reservations used for sustenance fishing.

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Janet Mills has expressed her opposition to the regulation of sports betting.

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Janet Mills has taken steps to improve relations with Maine's native tribes, despite her prior rocky relationship with them as attorney general.

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Janet Mills signed a bill to establish stricter water quality standards for rivers used by Maine's tribes for sustenance fishing, something long sought by the tribes.

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In 1985, Janet Mills married real estate developer Stanley Kuklinski, with whom she had five stepdaughters and three stepgrandsons and two stepgranddaughters.

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Janet Mills is the sister of Peter Mills, Dora Anne Mills, and Paul Mills.

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