Frances Jones Mills (July 4, 1920 – May 24, 1996) was an American politician who was a state official in Kentucky for a large portion of the 1970s and 1980s.
She was the first woman and first Democrat in the 20th century to win the office of State Representative for the Knox County, Kentucky district.
She taught school in Gray for eight years after which she married Marvin Wayne Bowling, whom she later divorced in the early 1940s.
Mills was an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1964, winning the Democratic nomination but losing the general election to Republican Tim Lee Carter despite the nationwide Democratic landslide as Lyndon B. Johnson retained the presidency by a huge margin over Barry Goldwater.
As a result, a handful of Kentucky politicians became known as musical chairs officeholders because they would run for one statewide office and then another repeatedly.