Lillian F. Mills is an American accountant and the first female dean of the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business.[1][2]
Lillian Mills | |
|---|---|
| Title | Dean of McCombs School of Business |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Florida |
Mills completed bachelor's and master's degrees in accounting at the University of Florida in 1980 and 1981, respectively,[3] 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.[4] 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.[5]
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.[6] 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.[7] In June 2021, Mills was appointed to the deanship permanently,[8] and is the first woman to serve in that position.[9] Mill's lasting impact on the accounting profession will be "the influence she has had on generations of tax scholars."[10]
References
edit- ^ Bleizeffer, Kristy (2023-05-10). "The P&Q Interview: How Texas McCombs Dean Lillian Mills Navigates A Post-Pandemic Landscape". Poets&Quants. Retrieved 2023-05-13.
- ^ "Lillian Mills named permanent dean of McCombs School of Business at UT Austin". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2023-05-13.
- ^ "Lillian Mills (BSAc '80, MAcc '81)". June 2021. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
- ^ Lillian Mills at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Lillian Mills Appointed Dean of McCombs School of Business". University of Texas at Austin. 1 June 2021. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
- ^ "Lillian Mills". University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
- ^ "Lillian Mills Appointed Dean of the McCombs School of Business". University of Texas at Austin. 1 June 2021. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
- ^ Cronin, Mike (2 June 2021). "Lillian Mills named permanent dean of McCombs School of Business at UT Austin". Austin Business Journal. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
- ^ Ethier, Marc (2 June 2021). "After 99 Years, Texas McCombs Hires First-Ever Woman Dean". Poets and Quants. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
- ^ https://news.utexas.edu/2023/05/10/mccombs-dean-named-2023-outstanding-accounting-educator/
