{"id":2552,"date":"2014-04-03T15:47:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T15:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2552"},"modified":"2015-11-16T18:46:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T18:46:30","slug":"janet-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/janet-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 105: Maine’s Attorney General Janet Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong>\u00a0105
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0March 29
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Janet Mills
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Attorney General <\/a>Janet Trafton Mills was born and raised in Farmington.\u00a0 She graduated from Farmington High School and earned a BA degree from the University of Massachusetts Boston.\u00a0 Mills returned to Maine and earned a J.D. degree from the University of Maine School of Law.<\/p>\n

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Host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe Steve Woods (left) and Maine’s Attorney General Janet Mills (right) sat down to talk civil service, politics and business.<\/p><\/div>\n

Mills was an Assistant Attorney General from 1976 to 1980, prosecuting homicides and other major crimes. She is also the first woman in the Criminal Division of the Attorney General\u2019s office. \u00a0In 1980, she was elected District Attorney for Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford Counties, a position to which she was re-elected three times. \u00a0She was the first woman District Attorney in New England and one of the first in the country.<\/p>\n

Stevoe and\u00a0Mills also talked about our past TST guests\u00a0including her brother, former State Senator Peter Mills<\/a> and Vice President of Clinical Affairs at the University of New England Dr. Dora Mills<\/a>.\u00a0 Stevoe described the Mills family as one of Maine’s civil families, having ties with many influential members of our government, including President Eisenhower and Maine\u2019s own Margaret Chase Smith.<\/p>\n

In 2002, she was elected to the House of Representatives, representing the towns of Farmington and Industry.\u00a0 She had run successfully for her fourth term in the House of Representatives in November 2008 when she was elected by the Joint Convention in December 2008 to be Maine\u2019s 55th Attorney General. \u00a0She was the first woman (and second) to hold the office of Attorney General in Maine.<\/p>\n

From 2011 through 2012, she was of counsel in the Litigation Group of PretiFlaherty, LLP. She also taught in the Justice Studies Program at the University of Maine Augusta and served for two years as Vice Chair of the Maine Democratic Party.\u00a0 In December 2012, Mills was\u00a0chosen by the Legislature\u00a0to serve as Maine\u2019s 57th Attorney General.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maine\u2019s Attorney General Janet Mills visited the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studio and sat down with host Steve Woods to discuss important legislative issues facing Mainers. Stevoe and Mills also discussed how Maine\u2019s largest law office operates, as well as topics relative to the United States Supreme Court, and the importance of women in business, politics, and sports. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}